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Week 7: Current Case Studies in Emergency Management

Overview:

Welcome to Week 7.

This week you will study case studies in emergency management. Reading current case

studies in the emergency management discipline will aid the understanding of how to

conduct case study research. You will begin your final project.

Course Objective(s):

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Welcome to Week 8.

This week you will study APA requirements and finalize, polish, and turn in your final

products.

Course Objective(s):

CO1: Analyze difficult policy issues that confront decision makers.

CO3: Produce federal regulations/best practices that will allow personal contribution

within the growing emergency management profession.

CO5: Evaluate responses to previous disasters to characterize the general areas of

shortcomings.

CO6: Create a case analysis at the graduate level.

Weekly Objective(s):

LO1: Read and understand APA resources

LO2: Apply APA format and other requirements to Assignment 7-8 (Final Paper)

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Finalize your Case Study The finish line is now in sight. All the components of the case study have now been developed. There are a couple of remaining concerns. First, being an operational career field, instructions and directions tend to be presented in plain, direct language. Therefore, when writing for this audience, the most effective language to employ is that which is plain and direct.

That being said, the world of academia also has standards of presentation that must be followed to enable the work to be received and accepted within the community. The standard for format and writing convention is provided by the American Psychological Association, or APA. APA provides a widely accepted common language for research papers that enables consistency across the field. APA also provides guidelines for headings and sequence of presentation that further standardized the presentation.

When one typically thinks of what makes a research paper credible, issues such as accuracy, rigor, and logic come to mind. However, it's also important to consider the impact of simple things like proof-reading. Fair or not, the most brilliant analysis in academic history can lose credibility over misspelled or misused words. Don't let that happen. Never lose credibility to the simple stuff.

Conclusions and Recommendations Most likely, at this point, congratulations are probably in order. Working through the research process; problems have been designed, questions asked, data gathered, methods applied, and analysis conducted. Only one things left to do - figure out what was learned.

Learning is expressed through writing conclusions. The conclusion takes the outcome of the analysis and expresses it in a few concise statements that sum up what the reader should know about the subject that he or she didn't know before. Conclusions and recommendations are written exclusively in the words of the author - no citations or references are appropriate in this section.

Improvements to theory, policy, and operations are expressed through the development of recommendations. Of the two, conclusions and recommendations, recommendations are by far the more important. The mine exploded. So what? The ship sank. So what? The river flooded. So what? It's the answering of the 'So what?' question with respect to any analysis: Recommend air exchangers; Recommend not running aground; Recommend berms; whatever it happens to be, it's the recommendation that makes the study worth doing. Our field of study is operational, and often lives depend on the correct execution of the knowledge and skills inherent in the profession. That means that research in the field is likewise obligated to provide value in ways that empirical research often is not. In other words, what we do and what we research matter.

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Final Project

Assignment Instructions

The final project will synthesize the information from the course and focus on a problem you have identified in your community (or community of your choice) through your preceding assignments. This is your opportunity to develop a problem statement, perform a literature review, and devise a methodology of researching the topic of your choice related to the course. For specific paper instructions in form and content, please note:

Final Project should be at least 15 APA-formatted and referenced pages-long, including title page and references. You must submit your Final Project as any other Written Assignment in the course to Turn It through Week 8 Assignments. Use the EDMG 540 Research Proposal Template (Attached) Final Project without a satisfactory Turn It In Similarity Index will not be accepted for grading. DO NOT SUBMIT YOUR FINAL PROJECT TO YOUR PERSONAL TURN IT IN account or through someone else's account before you submit it under Week 8 Assignments.

Submitting YOUR FINAL PROJECT TO YOUR PERSONAL TURN IT IN ACCOUNT or using someone else's Turn It In account, will render your actual Week 8 submission ineligible for grading because it will generate 100 percent similarity (plagiarism) once it is (re)submitted under Week 8 Assignments. Submit as Microsoft Word document. Name the file "EDMG611FinalProject_YourLastName.doc/x" (i.e., Hanfen_EDMG611FinalProject.doc/x). You must use APA style.

This assignment is due at the end of Week 8.

You can access Assignment 7-8 in the Assignments area of the course.

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Learning from similar studies is important. Many times we just learn how something "should be", but do not have a basis of what it looks like. Reviewing research about EM allows us to understand how the methodology is applied, how the data collection occurred, how the researcher conducted the analysis, and what points are covered through the reporting. Always read research in our profession, as it will continue to build your cognitive basis.

General Format

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GENERAL APA GUIDELINES

Your essay should be typed and double-spaced on standard-sized paper (8.5" x 11"), with 1" margins on all sides. Include a page header (also known as the “running head”) at the top of every page. For a professional paper, this includes your paper title and the page number. For a student paper, this only includes the page number. To create a page header/running head, insert page numbers flush right. Then type "TITLE OF YOUR PAPER" in the header flush left using all capital letters. The running head is a shortened version of your paper's title and cannot exceed 50 characters including spacing and punctuation.

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The 7th edition of the APA Publication Manual requires that the chosen font be accessible (i.e., legible) to all readers and that it be used consistently throughout the paper. It acknowledges that many font choices are legitimate, and it advises writers to check with their publishers, instructors, or institutions for guidance in cases of uncertainty.

While the APA Manual does not specify a single font or set of fonts for professional writing, it does recommend a few fonts that are widely available. These include sans serif fonts such as 11-point Calibri, 11- point Arial, and 10-point Lucida Sans Unicode as well as serif fonts such as 12-point Times New Roman, 11- point Georgia, 10-point Computer Modern.

Major Paper Sections

Your essay should include four major sections: the Title Page, Abstract, Main Body, and References.

TITLE PAGE

Note: APA 7 provides slightly di�erent directions for formatting the title pages of professional papers (e.g., those intended for scholarly publication) and student papers (e.g., those turned in for credit in a high school or college course).

The title page should contain the title of the paper, the author's name, and the institutional a�iliation. A professional paper should also include the author note. A student paper should also include the course number and name, instructor name, and assignment due date.

Type your title in upper and lowercase letters centered in the upper half of the page. The title should be centered and written in boldface. APA recommends that your title be focused and succinct and that it should not contain abbreviations or words that serve no purpose. Your title may take up one or two lines. All text on the title page, and throughout your paper, should be double-spaced.

Beneath the title, type the author's name: first name, middle initial(s), and last name. Do not use titles (Dr.) or degrees (PhD).

Beneath the author's name, type the institutional a�iliation, which should indicate the location where the author(s) conducted the research.

A professional paper should include the author note beneath the institutional a�iliation, in the bottom half of the title page. This should be divided up into several paragraphs, with any paragraphs that are not relevant omitted. The first paragraph should include the author’s name, the symbol for the ORCID iD, and the URL for the ORCID iD. Any authors who do not have an ORCID iD should be omitted. The second paragraph should show any change in a�iliation or any deaths of the authors. The third paragraph should include any disclosures or acknowledgements, such as study registration, open practices and data sharing, disclosure of

related reports and conflicts of interest, and acknowledgement of financial support and other assistance. The fourth paragraph should include contact information for the corresponding author.

A student paper should not include an author note.

Note again that page headers/page numbers (described above for professional and student papers) also appear at the top of the title page. In other words, a professional paper's title page will include the title of the paper flush left in all capitals and the page number flush right, while a student paper will only contain the page number flush right.

Student APA title page

Title page for a student paper in APA 7 style.

Professional paper APA title page

Title page for a professional paper in APA 7 style.

ABSTRACT

Begin a new page. Your abstract page should already include the page header (described above). On the first line of the abstract page, center and bold the word “Abstract” (no italics, underlining, or quotation marks).

Beginning with the next line, write a concise summary of the key points of your research. (Do not indent.) Your abstract should contain at least your research topic, research questions, participants, methods, results, data analysis, and conclusions. You may also include possible implications of your research and future work you see connected with your findings. Your abstract should be a single paragraph, double-spaced. Your abstract should typically be no more than 250 words.

You may also want to list keywords from your paper in your abstract. To do this, indent as you would if you were starting a new paragraph, type Keywords: (italicized), and then list your keywords. Listing your keywords will help researchers find your work in databases.

Abstracts are common in scholarly journal articles and are not typically required for student papers unless advised by an instructor. If you are unsure whether or not your work requires an abstract, consult your instructor for further guidance.

APA Abstract Page

Abstract page for a student paper in APA 7 style.

Please see our Sample APA Paper resource to see an example of an APA paper. You may also visit our Additional Resources page for more examples of APA papers.

How to Cite the Purdue OWL in APA

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In the absence of contributor/edit date information, treat the page as a source with a group author and use the abbreviation "n.d." for "no date":

Purdue Online Writing Lab. (n.d.). Title of resource. Purdue Online Writing Lab. http://Web address for OWL resource

Purdue Online Writing Lab. (n.d.). General Writing FAQs. Purdue Online Writing Lab. https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/general_writing_faqs.html

The generic APA citation for OWL pages, which includes author/edit date information, is this:

Contributors' names. (Last edited date). Title of resource. Site Name. http://Web address for OWL resource

Note: This page reflects the latest version of the APA Publication Manual (i.e., APA 7), which released in October 2019. The equivalent resource for the older APA 6 style can be found here.