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Our Future Older Selves: Questions for Reflection Discussion, and Writing

Purpose

No matter where each of us happens to be in terms of our chronological age or life course stage, we might find it beneficial to reflect upon (and befriend!) our future older self, no matter how far away in the future that older self seems to dwell, no matter even if we are already considered to be an "older person."



Framing Questions

Who is your hoped for future self?
Who is the older person you most want to become?
In what ways is your future older self related to who you are right now and who you’ve been at earlier phases of your life?
When you imagine your future older self, who do you see? What are you doing? Where are you? How do you feel and move? Who or what is around you?


Detail Questions

What will be your central sources of meaning? How do you want to feel?
What will you consider to be the qualities of a good day?
What will your living environment be like? How will it look and feel? With whom will you share your living environment?
What kinds of relationships will you nurture and value? What role will you play in others’ lives? With whom will you interact on a regular basis?
What will be your sources of pleasure and activity? How will you care for your older bodily self? How will you live in your older body?
What new things do you hope to be learning about? How will you spend your time? What kinds of daily activities and experiences will you most
value?
What will you want society to expect from you? What will you expect from
society?


Enactment Questions

Are there features of your life that you consider to be negotiable, nonnegotiable, or undecided? How might this influence how you imagine
and become your future older self?
What kinds of lifestyle changes do you need to make? What kinds of personal work do you need to do?
What kinds of planning do you need to do on behalf of your future self?
What forms of economic security and social support do you need to create on behalf of your future self? What does your “personal safety net”
look like?
What sources of meaning do you need to recapture or create in your present life?
What does your life need to look like now so that you may become your hoped for future self?



Guidelines

When preparing your essays, please use a 12-point standard font, 1-inch margins, double-spacing, and page numbering. In addition, please attach a cover page as you would for any academic paper that includes your name, the title of your paper, the date, and the name of the course. Properly cite and document your sources, even if they are the texts assigned for this course. Please use APA style, and check for spelling errors. Make sure that you use the three categories above as subheadings. This paper will not require an abstract.



Rubric

Each of the three types of questions will be worth 30%. For example, if under the subheading “Enactment questions” you address all six questions completely and thoroughly, you will receive 30 points.

Following the guidelines and using APA style will constitute the remaining 10%. Please note that for every 3 spelling errors a point will be deducted from your final grade.

Me to my writer of essay  ?????
- Also this paper is not about length but content I need a strong introduction and all questions answered I put pictures of the instructions and put in this section so you could see how it is going be written please use the three sub headings - framing questions , detail questions and enactment questions  also anything that needs be cited please cite . My major is social work and I am taking aging and development right now this is an important essay worth 100 points please do not let me down  also I need a good strong introduction

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Resources: Wenger, E. (2006). Communities of practice: A brief description. Retrieved from http://www.linqed.net/media/15868/COPCommunities_of_practiceDefinedEWenger.pdf
Wenger, E., Traynor, B., de Laat, M. (2011). Promoting and assessing value creation in communities and networks: A conceptual framework. Retrieved from http://wenger-trayner.com/documents/Wenger_Trayner_DeLaat_Value_creation.pdf 

Develop a paper researching online communities of practice.  Discuss the benefits, challenges, and opportunities regarding the integration of community practice and reducing barriers related to your current organization or a nationally recognized organization. Describe how your community could be/has been transformed using technology and the information learned from the resources.  You may obtain articles from any professional periodical or Website.  The written paper should be at least three – five (3-5) pages in length not including cover page or reference page. A minimum of three (3) scholarly current references are required for this assignment. Read and use the Hoadley & Kilner (2005) article listed below as the basis for this analysis. Write in the third person and submit in a word document.

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(1) How is the media, biased, more towards progressive-liberal values, conservative values or in both directions depending on the specific media outlets you may access? Explain your response.
(2) Describe in detail the different types of bias that the different types of media uses.
(3) Find two or more examples of media bias (video clip, article, images) and explain in detail how these example/s represent media bias and the impact that it has on public opinion. 
Writing Guidelines:
4-5 FULL double-spaced pages of text. This does not include your title page or reference page.
Please introduce your topic, explain about it, then conclude your topic. Focus on the structure of your paper.
Write in complete sentences and paragraphs. Bullet points or lists will not be accepted.

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Visual Analysis Essay
Guidelines for Visual Analysis Essay

Assignment Overview

Your next major essay in this course will be a visual analysis essay.  In this essay, you will be expected to apply the concepts covered in Units 1-4 as you analyze an image to show some of its larger meanings.  This includes knowledge of the writing process, rhetorical situation, formal register, essay structure, and visual analysis. This essay also requires you to cite at least one credible source.





Purpose and Learning Objectives

In this assignment, you should practice analyzing visual texts, using the writing process, and developing a well-constructed essay in formal register. The essay should show how an analysis of the visual components of an image leads to a better understanding of the image.



Process for Completion 

The first step in this process will be to choose an image.  Browse the images available through the Gordon Parks Foundation Archives.  The link is available near the end of Unit 3.  Choose an image that you find engaging and that you feel offers ample opportunity for analysis. Some images are interesting, but they’re difficult to talk about.  The image you choose will be the subject of your essay.
After you have chosen your image, you should engage in some prewriting activities using the ideas and terms presented in Unit 4.  First, take stock of your initial reactions to the image.  What emotions did you feel as you first looked at the photograph?  What aspects about the image lead viewers to react a certain way?
Before you begin writing, you will want to perform some research. This assignment requires at least one source (print or web). If you're choosing an image about the Civil Rights Movement, you might want to research the movement. If you're choosing an image about Flavio in Rio de Janeiro, you might want to research how Gordon Parks met Flavio. You're welcome to use more than one source, but be sure to keep track of the information you gain from your source so that you can cite the source appropriately.
Next, analyze the image by looking closely at the content, framing, composition, focus, color, lighting and context.  What interesting or unique features do you notice about the image?  What is the cultural or historical context of the image?  You should record all of these activities. Some of them will become important pieces of your final draft.
Next, it will be time to find your focus and begin generating a working thesis statement.  For this assignment, your thesis will make a claim about the meaning of the image.  In other words, what message does the image communicate?  Remember, every image tells a story and an image may tell a different story depending on who is looking.  Once you have decided what idea or story the image communicates to you, you will need to explain how content, framing, focus, color, angle and lighting come together to create that story or convey meaning. Your thesis will be more specific if you show which visual elements your essay discusses and what they do to create meaning. So, an example thesis might be something like this: “Through content, framing, and angle, the image demonstrates how segregation affected not only adults but also the children of black families in the South.”
After completing the previous steps, it will be time to begin drafting your essay.  The following outline might help you to structure your initial draft.
Introduction: Identify and describe the image. It is so very important that you identify the image very clearly. Use the name of the photographer and the image: for example, you might say, “In Gordon Parks’s photograph titled “American Gothic,” a woman stands in front of a flag with a broom in her hand and a mop in the background.” In the introduction, you might show why the image is important or relevant or provide some background information about it. Please embed the image into the body of your essay somewhere so that the readers can see it. One way to embed the image is to put your mouse on the image and right-click, and then select “copy.” Next, go to your document and right-click on your document, and then select “paste.”
Thesis:  Tell your readers what idea or story the image communicates. Be sure the thesis shows the result of your analysis. (See the above discussion in #4 under Process for Completion.)
Supporting paragraphs:  Explain how the visual elements come together to create meaning.  In multiple body paragraphs, discuss the effect of content, framing, composition, color, focus, angle, lighting and/or context.  You should not discuss every one of these elements, but you should discuss enough of them so that your reader understands how the visual elements work together to create a story and to create meaning. You may have three or more body paragraphs dedicated to this task.  It would be a good idea to discuss just one or two elements in each paragraph.
Conclusion:  At a minimum, your conclusion should remind your reader how the visual elements convey meaning.
Minimum Requirements

The final draft of your essay should be between 600 and 900 words in length (about 2 -3 pages long).
The essay should meet the expectation of an academic rhetorical situation. You will be expected to use formal register English.  Your audience will be a general audience of educated adults. 
The image you have chosen as the subject for your essay should be linked to or embedded in the body of the essay.
The essay should be written in MLA format, with a proper header, page numbers, title, and font. See the MLA guidelines in the unit.
The essay should discuss two or more visual elements from the lessons.
The essay should cite at least one source. The source should be cited in MLA format, so there should be an in-text citation for the source and a works cited page. Books, journals, magazines, and web sources are all acceptable for this assignment, but you should be sure to consider the reliability of your sources. You should not use Wikipedia.
If you do not meet the minimum requirements for the essay, you should not expect to earn more than a 60% on the assignment.



Plagiarism

Plagiarism is using someone else’s words or ideas without giving credit and is a serious academic offense.  It can range from:

Turning in a paper any part of which you did not write, 
Cutting and pasting a paper together from various sources without attributing the sources correctly,
Changing a few words but basically keeping most of the words and sentence structure of the original,
Using the ideas of another without giving credit to the person who originally had the idea.
Using the exact words of the source without using quotation marks even if you give the name of the source.
Refer to the syllabus for consequences of plagiarism in this class. For more information, see http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/01/



Submission Protocol

Your assignment must be submitted as a .doc, .docx, or .rtf attachment. Microsoft Word is available to students for free. Let me know if you need help gaining access to it.

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There are other ways to study the history of communication aside from interviewing people.  Please take the same topic that you conducted your interview on for Exam Question #2 and use a different method to learn and report more about it.  If you did not complete Exam Question #2, please take a look at that exam question's description and choose one of the events on the list.  

Topic: First time they saw Color TV


Guidelines:

            Make sure that your response is one page (APA style) or less.  Points will be deducted if your response is longer than one page.  Please provide a succinct but thorough response.  Learning to write within a word limit is a valuable skill. 

            Be sure to include references in APA format.  References do not count against your word limit.  References should be on a separate page. Please also include a title/cover page.

General Grading Criteria

The following is a general guideline regarding the 5 different categories on the rubrics.  Please see comments in Carmen for more details when you get your grade back, but this is a general note:

Exceptional responses briefly but succinctly combine information from lecture and outside sources (we will talk about using the library).  The response is extremely well written and organized in APA format.  There is little to no room for improvement. Exceptional responses demonstrate that you can reiterate information from the lecture and other course materials, find and integrate additional relevant information on your own from sources outside of the course materials, and incorporate your own original analysis. 
Above Average responses briefly but succinctly answer the questions, combining information from the class as well as information from outside class.  There is some additional information that may improve the response but overall it is above average.
Average responses meet the minimum requirements of the assignment.  However, information needs to be clarified or there is information that is incorrect.  Improvements could be made in organizing information from different sources. 
Needs Improvement means there was some key information missing or inaccurate/irrelevant information included.
Not Addressed generally means that the information was missing or inaccurate.

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What is the difference between listening and hearing? How can you become a better listener? What was it about a speech or presentation you attended that made you listen or where you only hearing it? 

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What two principles are most helpful to keep in mind when you’re just beginning to apply the crucial conversations skills to your every-day conversations?

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The paper must be at least 8-10 pages double spaced in length and documented in APA style. The title page and reference pages are NOT included in the length requirement-the paper must be 8-10 pages of content.  The student must use at least eight scholarly references when researching the topic.  Scholarly references should primarily include scholarly peer reviewed articles.  Specifically, only two of the eight resources can come from alternative sources such as websites (ending in .gov, .org, .edu. only) or other scholarly material; the other six resources must come from scholarly peer reviewed articles (To find scholarly, peer-reviewed articles it is recommended to use the university library database social work journals, PSYCinfo, Medline or other databases with the option to limit search results to scholarly, peer reviewed, full text material only).  Textbooks may be used for support, but not as a primary source.  Please refer to the writing tips for the research papers in the Introduction section of this course for detailed instructions on acceptable resources and APA style.  Paper is due the 5th week of class and is worth 100 points.  It is encouraged for students to review the rubric for this assignment in the Introduction section of the course as well.  When reviewing the rubric, you will notice that students are expected to address "core issues" related to the chosen topic.  

An example of "core issues" related to a chronic illness experienced by many older adults would be examining the scope/severity of the issue, significant statistics in regards to target populations with the illness, defining the illness, symptoms of the illness, short and long term effects of the illness, and treatment(s) for the illness and effectiveness of available treatment(s).

An example of "core issues" related to a social service area related to aging would include examining the social problem leading to the development of the service, the scope and severity of the problem before and after implementation of the service, funding for the service, assessment of clients, interventions provided by the service area, and evaluation of the social service's effectiveness.

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1. As you processed the Interview Skills Scenarios, what therapeutic approaches do you believe would be effective for each scenario? Identify two therapeutic techniques within the theories that you would consider integrating into the session, and why you chose the particular technique. Finally, what interviewing skills might be essential for working with this client, and what are one or two factors that are important to keep in mind as you use these skills?
   
   2. In The Resilient Practitioner, Skovholt lays out key components of sustaining the professional self. Identify two components that you feel are particularly important and how this knowledge may impact your professional development.
   
   Skovholt, T. M., & Trotter-Mathison, M. (2016). The resilient practitioner: Burnout and compassion fatigue prevention and self-care strategies for the helping professions. Routledge.

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Produce an essay, which demonstrates an understanding of the fundamentals of current grammar usage, mechanics, and diction.

Write a 200-300 word essay in APA Format.
Use standard grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Use at least 2 reference to support your decision. All papers will be submitted through Turninit for plagiarism. If your submission has a percentage of 10% of more you will receive a zero for the assignment. I looked forward to reading your papers.  

Television, radio, and film have a tremendous effect on Americans. In fact, many people make judgments of other people based on the images portrayed by media.  What common stereotypes do the media present?

*This is a college course and I expect each of you to perform on a college level*

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Legacy of J.-J. Rousseau: is man still born free, which chains await him in 2019 and what does this mean for international relations?

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Consider a time when you have felt misunderstood. Discuss where the breakdown in the communication process occurred and what you could have done to change the outcome of the communication. In particular, consider the elements found in the models of communication

This is a formal essay, fulfilling the course Gordon Rule requirement. As such it should be written in essay form with an introduction, body, and conclusion and transitions between points. Do not write as a list. Do write as a narrative. § Professional work is expected. Therefore, the essay should be free of spelling, punctuation, formatting, and other grammatical errors. If you struggle with your writing skills, the Writing Connection in Building 6, Room 6337, is available to help you learn the rules of grammar necessary to write a clean essay. § The essay should be substantive. This means you should 1) give examples as evidence to support the claims you make in the essay, 2) incorporate the vocabulary of the course and the lecture material, and 3) draw connections between what you have learned in the course and in everyday life. § Cite sources, if necessary. Outside sources are not required for this essay. However, if you do use outside resources, they need to be cited appropriately: both through parenthetical citation and a reference page at the end. Any time you use ideas that you didn’t come up with on your own (out of your own brain), you should give credit to the source.