Week 1- Identifying your Case Study

Project Assignment Responses and Formatting Each week during this course there is key Project assignment due on Day 7 of each week. Assignments should be formatted to ensure you complete all parts and provide a logical organization and structure to enable the instructor to follow your logic and thought process.

Secondly, external research and supporting examples are expected in your responses (not the course lecture, not just your opinions, or the course textbook).   As you respond the Project Assignment make sure to reference external credible sources --as this strengthens your work. The greater the number of creditable external sources the stronger is your work. Supporting external sources cited at the end in the reference section per APA guidelines.    By adhering to these practices, you enhance your work: demonstrate your knowledge in a substantive way and impact your grade earned. This you can do in four important ways:   1) Use the appropriate words linked to the topics for the assignment and week 2) Address directly each part of the assignment in expanded detail 3) Make use of supporting information from the case study and external sources -- (through academic credible articles and web sites) 4) 3 + different credible sources for each section. 5) Format your assignment responses per APA guidelines.    Format guidelines and best practices to achieve the above: a) Title page: Include- Assignment title, Student name, Course Name and Week, School Name, Name of Instructor b) Make use of subheadings for each part of the assignment. This can be achieved by stated key words from the question. d) Intext cite where information is used from sources. c) Reference section: Sources need to be cited as per APA guidelines.

Use of Creditable Sources Required： Project Assignment Responses

This information credible sources requirement supports the Project Assignment details and rubric. 

To earn the maximum, score in each section, that demonstrates knowledge of the topics:   A)  "exceeding the expectations" = 3 + different credible sources intext cited for each section per the rubric. B)  Sufficiently supports = use of 2 different intext cited sources per section. C)  Weakly supported credible sources used = 1 intext cited source D)  Lacked credible sources = No sources intext cited 1.    Research needs to go beyond the course textbook or course lecture notes. 2.    Sources published, authored, and less than 6 years old. 3.    APA guidelines must be applied to intext cite information where used in the response.

Example 1: A response has no intext citations but does have a reference section will be penalized in each section and graded as “Lacked credible sources” – as this demonstrates lack of APA application and potential plagiarism – as information was obtained from sources but no credit given to the authors.   Example 2, the scope section can be written simply as a scope statement. However, to use information from credible sources to support the response: information can be used from sources that support scope importance, what it is, how it benefits a project, negative effects if no scope is developed.