An intersector collaborative community network was formed to
develop a comprehensive strategy for building community capacity to better cope
with the economic and fiscal challenges on the immediate horizon. Local government and a variety of
community-based organizations, including neighborhood-based organizations form
the nodes in this collaborative network.
One component of this community development strategy involves enrichment
of quality of life in the neighborhoods throughout the community with special
attention being given to improving quality of life in low-to-moderate income
neighborhoods. The purpose of this research is to help leadership network better understand
community development and the predisposition of the community towards
neighborhood development as one strategy for building community capacity. Neighborhood development involves community
development, coproduction, and direct investment by public agencies.
You must reference all sources information (readings) that
you used in your assignment. Either quote or put the information in your
own words and provide a reference.
Short (one or two sentences) quotes should be bracketed by quotation
marks followed by the authors, year and page number. Long quotations should be indented (left and
right margins) followed by the author(s) last name, year, and page number. In
most cases, you will want to put referenced material in your own words followed
by a citation.
Writing Example: Testing
for Differences between Means -Findings and Conclusion Section –There
are numerous ways of building the capacity of communities. Neighborhood development can be an important
tool for community improvement assuming that neighbors are willing to collaborate. A summated index has been created by adding
the scores of items found in Table 1. This
index provides an overall reading of willingness to collaborate. The lowest possible score on this index is 7
and the highest possible score is 28. The
results indicate that households 65 years of age and older (mean=19.1, Table 7)
are slightly more committed to the neighborhoods where they live compared to
the youngest households (mean=18.5).
Guidelines Used to Grade Papers (see grading rubric for details)
Executive Summary (10
points) (2 pages)
Includes the most
important blended discussion of readings and findings
Presents the implications
in a clear and readable format for those who have not read the body of the
paper and who have a limited understanding of statistics.
The information flows and is easy to read.
Issues and Policy Concerns
(35 points) (approximately 5 pages)
Easy to read from
perspective of the target audience (elected public officials)
Logic and flow is
extremely important
Does not use 1st
person in the discussion
Provides a comprehensive
discussion of the most important subjects from the readings based on the
purpose of the research
Includes selected content
from the 1st paper
Discussion points toward
the data
Properly reference all
materials used to write the paper using the reference style discussed in
the instructions for the paper
Limited number of quotes
that are properly referenced
Discusses the most
important concepts as they relate to the measures in the findings
Includes discussion of
readings from previous papers
Includes findings from
previous papers (must be referenced: Your last name and the year)
Findings and Policy
Implications (35 points) (approximately 5 pages)
Discussion is connected to
the “Issues and Policy Section”
Describes what the
findings mean to issues and policy concerns
Discussion is
comprehensive but does not bore the reader with unimportant details
Discussion uses but does
not overuse percentages
Flow is important and
discussion should be written concept by concept rather than table by table
Calculation Section (5
points)
·
Provides calculations
·
Provides a conceptual description of the logic
behind the statistic using the example
