The Signature Assignment for this class is worth a total of 300 points. It is a writing-intensive project designed to give students who are interested in negotiation and conflict resolution the opportunity to polish their skills as a negotiator facing an intractable negotiation challenge.
As you recall, the first part of the Signature Project is where you began exploring a real, ongoing conflict that has yet to be resolved. The second part of the project (value: 70 points, plus 30 points for the associated checklist) includes a revision of the first section, plus the addition of another section describing any unsuccessful strategies one or more of the parties have taken to resolve the conflict, as well as their reasons for failure. If you used sources in Part 1, they may give you guidance as to why negotiations have failed to this point. If the conflict is localized and small, simply describe what efforts, if any, have been attempted to solve the conflict and your understanding as to why they failed.
This section of your Signature Assignment does not have a specific length, as all conflicts are of varying degrees of complexity. If there is substantial information about attempts to solve the conflict, include it, and if not, it is acceptable to say “no efforts have yet been made to resolve this conflict.” As before, every word of your Signature Assignment should be essential to conveying its overall message: do not over-explain ideas, use larger words when smaller ones will do, or add text only to help you bulk up the length of your paper. As before, I will be checking your work for grammatical errors and potential plagiarism: please be proactive and do the same with your own work before submitting it.
This particular part of the assignment is worth up to 70 points because you have (hopefully) already submitted the checklist for Part 2.
Specific dates and point values for each section of the Signature Assignment are in the Course Requirements and Assignments section of the syllabus.
Before submitting your research paper, please be sure it meets the following guidelines:
All parts of this project must be produced in Microsoft Word.
The text must be double-spaced, have one-inch margins, and be in either 12-point Times New Roman, Calibri, or Arial font.
All sources must be documented both in the paper and in the references using the APA Author-Date writing style. Details for reference documentation are in your style manual. Students who are enrolled in the Turner School of Theology are welcome to use either the APA style manual, the Chicago style manual, or the SBL style manual.
Your paper must include a title page, body, and reference page. The title page and reference page must be separate pages.
attached is the original paper if you could just add the additional pages to this please
