CJ 485 Module Five Practice Activity

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CJ 485 Module Five Practice Activity Guidelines and Rubric

Overview

In this practice activity, you will find and share a scholarly article on public relations and communication strategies, identifying the key elements that need to be included when communicating a solution to stakeholders and describing the pitfalls that need to be avoided.

Prompt

In this module, you have learned about a variety of communication strategies that will aid you in the task of communicating solutions to internal and external stakeholders. For this activity, you will be practicing the skill of identifying effective and ineffective means of communication with various audiences, which will assist you when explaining how you will communicate your solutions to internal and external stakeholders in your project.

After reading and reviewing the Module Five resources, do the following:

• Find a peer-reviewed scholarly article on communication strategies in the criminal justice field, and properly link it and cite it in your assignment submission. Be sure the article you select will help you answer the following questions:
  • What key elements should be included in an effective message to stakeholders?
  • What pitfalls should you avoid in your communication strategy?

Specifically, the following rubric criteria must be addressed:

• Identify a scholarly article on communication strategies.
• Describe key elements of an effective message mentioned in the article.
• Describe pitfalls that should be avoided when communicating with various audiences mentioned in the article.

What to Submit

This assignment must be 200 to 250 words in length. Any references should be cited in APA style. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.

AI Usage

If you use gen AI tools to support your work on this assignment, be sure to follow these AI usage guidelines. You must acknowledge your use of these tools in your work. Guidelines on how to cite AI tools can be found in this Shapiro Library guide.

Module Five Practice Activity Rubric

Criteria	Meets Expectations (100%)	Does Not Meet Expectations (0%)	Value
Clear Communication	Consistently and effectively communicates in an organized way to a specific audience	Shows no evidence of consistent, effective, or organized communication	15
Scholarly Article	Identifies a scholarly article on communication strategies	Does not identify a scholarly article on communication strategies	15
Key Elements	Describes key elements of an effective message mentioned in the article	Does not describe key elements of an effective message mentioned in the article	30
Pitfalls That Should Be Avoided	Describes pitfalls that should be avoided when communicating to various audiences mentioned in the article	Does not describe pitfalls that should be avoided when communicating to various audiences mentioned in the article	30
Citations and Attributions	Uses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with consistent minor errors	Does not use citations for ideas requiring attribution	10
Total:	100%