Section A: Blog Post (this
includes sections A1. Explanation and A2. Compelling Argument)
Write the blog post in an academic style, including the
following aspects:
1. An introduction
paragraph with a thesis and preview of the main points to come.
2. At
least one paragraph (Main point 1) explaining the technology, practice,
or process. This satisfies section A1 of the rubric.
3. At
least one paragraph (Main point 2) providing a compelling argument
discussing how the technological product, practice, or process will benefit the
employees or company once it is implemented. This satisfies section A2 of the
rubric.
4. In-text
citations for at least three different sources. Each source should have
corresponding reference list entries listed in section C: Sources. This also
helps satisfy section A1 of the rubric.
5.
A
concluding paragraph that restates the thesis,
reviews the main points from the paper, and presents closing comments.
6.
The
blog post should be a maximum of 1,000 words long.
Write Your Blog Post
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Section B: Identify Employee Group
Please provide a sentence or two that describes who the
people are in this employee group being used as your audience for the blog
post. Make sure this group is appropriate for the assignment. It should not be
customers; it should be a group of employees within a company.
B1. Analyzing Business Etiquette
Explain how the audience you described above influenced
your choices in writing the blog post to keep with the expected etiquette for
blog posts in the industry. Include in this explanation an idea of what tone you
chose and word choices you made while writing and why those were proper blog
writing etiquette for this audience.
Section C: Sources
Please provide the full reference list entry for your three outside
sources used in the blog post. Any
information you use from an outside source (whether directly quoted,
paraphrased, or summarized) should have both an in-text citation at the end of
the sentence where you quoted, paraphrased, or summarized, and a reference list
entry in this section. A reference list entry should include the following 4 items
in this order:
1. Author (or
organization as author if no person)
2. Date (or n.d.
if no date)
3. The title of
the article, book, or website
4. The publication
information (if a website, the direct URL link; if a book, the publisher name
and city; if a journal article, the name of journal, volume, issue and page
numbers and/or the doi link)
