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· Unit VIII

Regarding the Case Study that you choose to evaluate, you will want to perform research to develop conclusions around the specifics of the scenario. For example, if the case study was to address the explosion of the Challenger space ship in Florida, a summary of the situation and timeline is not the objective. For example, a perspective may be posed that mission leaders were unwilling to make a decision to delay the flight because they did not want to seem too conservative or unable to assess and to take reasonable risks. This concern about promoting their careers led to their taking unreasonable risks that resulted in disaster. Then develop the facts to support or to disprove this hypothesis and base the conclusions on your research.

When I write papers, I often do the work, then write the paper backwards - conclusions - to discussion - to research performed (or information found in a literature search) - to the hypothesis and then I re-work it forward filling in the gaps. This keeps a lot of irrelevant material out of the paper and I know that each section builds to the conclusions, findings, recommendations, and the next steps. For the Challenger paper, I might discuss how I would look at the management systems of NASA for making decisions and look to identify where this system failed regarding the decision to launch Challenger.

In the instructions for this case study, there is no mandate to form a hypothesis and there will be no deductions for not doing so. But I find that by utilizing a sentence as a guide, that it helps to focus the case study and to set a boundary that will keep the assignment from wandering into informative but often unfocused content. Finally, do not use papers you have submitted in the past. Tools like SafeAssign and Turnitin are very good about finding where content has been cut and pasted or where paraphrasing has taken place. Please develop your own thoughts and do not take short cuts.