1. Format: 12-point, readable font; 1.5 line spacing. 2. Pages must be properly numbered. 3. Word count: Minimum target
1. Format: 12-point, readable font; 1.5 line spacing.
2. Pages must be properly numbered.
3. Word count: Minimum target 2,000 words (excluding Cover Page, Table of Contents, and Reference List).
4. Table of Contents (a list of headings covered in the paper correlated to page numbers) must be included.
5. Body of the paper must provide research about the topic; sources must be appropriately identified with APA in-text citations correlated to a Reference List.
6. Insights section at the end summarizing what you learned – overall insights about concepts researched and personal insights.
7. Minimum of 10 references in the Reference List (in alphabetical order
This is a Research Paper. Any paragraphs containing research must contain APA citations of sources you have referenced correlated to an alphabetical Reference List.
For this assignment, imagine you are starting up a business venture in Nanaimo, British Columbia. As the founder of the company you want to be successful therefore you will follow the Strategic Management Process studied in class. This is a research paper and, as a general rule, each paragraph in your paper should contain citations correlated to an alphabetical Reference List. You will need to use your imagination for this assignment however you are required to research and provide references for all the business concepts in “BOLD” below.
You will need to research each of the business concepts BOLDED below. Each of the numbered section headings be-low must have its own section and will form the structure of both your paper and your Table of Contents. The research is intended to introduce you to information that was not covered in class. Do not just regurgitate information covered in class – go deeper. Following the “Research” section will be an “Application” section stating how this concept/research applies to your “imagined” organization, e.g., your organization’s Values.
Section Headings:
1. Cover page. (See below; also see the Writing Centre’s guide here.)
2. Introduction: Your business concept, business name, and reason for choosing the name (Use your imagination!)
3. Organizational Values – Research Application section: Explain the concept and list a minimum of 5 values for your organization and elaborate on each. Each “Value” must have its own Heading.
4. Vision Statement – Research Application section: Explain the concept and state your Vision Statement
5. Mission Statement – Research Application section: Explain the concept and state your Mission Statement
6. Organizational Goals – Research Application section: Explain the concept and record at least three of your SMART goals. List each SMART Goal as a separate bulleted item with a full explanation.
7. SWOT Analysis – Research Application section: Explain the concept and record at least 3 items in each category of your SWOT ‘table’. Create a separate heading for each of the four SWOT areas. Explain your entries in more depth after the table (paragraph/essay format).
8. Organization chart – Research Application section: Explain the concept and Include your chart with a minimum of 8 positions. Be sure to include the Job Titles on the Organization Chart. Job descriiptions are not required. (Note: You may have one person in your organization acting in more than one position: this is quite common with new, smaller businesses. Entrepreneurs often do many jobs: HR, Management, Finance, Operations, and so on with Accounting outsourced. This is fine, but their organization chart should still recognize and show those positions.
9. Target Market – Research Application section: Explain the concept and clearly state your target market and elaborate/explain.
10. Competitive Advantage and Strategy – Research Application section: Explain these concepts. Discuss your company’s competitive advantage and clearly state its strategy. Support your position. (Example thoughts: What are these for your company? Why would customers deal with you instead of your competition? How does your strategy fit into Porter’s Generic Strategies model studied in the course materials?
11. Insights section (minimum 250 words) – personal insights gained through this exercise.
12. Reference List (APA style; APA citations in the body of your paper)
Research idea
Prompt:
For the first assignment, you are going to generate ideas for your research project. At later stages of this project, you will need to narrow down your research to one television series and one social issue, but at this point you’ll choose two of each:
Choose 2 television shows and write a 100-150 word paragraph on each, detailing why you think it’s significant and worth studying. When choosing your television shows, be mindful of shows that would pair well with the social issues you are interested in; eventually you’ll be analyzing one show and its relationship to one social issue. At any point during these assignments, you are able to change your television show or social issue. What you choose now doesn’t restrict you in future assignments.
You can choose a television series from the syllabus OR a television series not on the syllabus
You can choose non-American television series
There are two ways to start: series first or topic first
Is there a television show that you really like or are fascinated by or troubled by or want to know more about? Start with that and then consider what might be a fitting key concept or social issue that is significant in that show. Browsing through IMDb or Wikipedia might be helpful at this stage.
alternatively, is there a topic or key concept or social issue that you are interested in knowing more about? Start with that and find three television shows that depict that topic. Browsing through IMDb or Wikipedia might be helpful at this stage.
Choose 2 key concepts/social issues from the Television: The Key Concepts textbook or the list below and write a 100-150 word paragraph on each, detailing why you’re interested in that concept. If you’d like, you could start applying that concept to either of your television shows.
examples of social/cultural issues/themes/concepts: ability, access, affect, algorithm, appropriation, audience, authorship, body, brand, capitalism, celebrity, censorship, children, citizen, class, colorism, comedy, commercialization, commodification, community, convergence, crime, cultural imperialism, data, democracy, discourse, documentary, domesticity, drama, ecology, education, encoding and decoding, ethnicity, ethnography, family, fans, feminism, gaze, gender, genre, globalisation, hegemony, history, hybridity, identity, ideology, image, independence, industry, information, infrastructure, institutions, intertextuality, intersectionality, irony, justice, knowledge, labor, marxism, mass culture, melodrama, memory, mental health, narrative, nation, network, new media, nostalgia, ownership, other, pleasure, policing, policy, political economy, politics, postmodernism, power, production, public, race, realism, reflexivity, regulation/deregulation, religion, representation, resistance, science fiction, semiotics, sex/sexuality, sign, sound, space, sport, stereotypes, structuralism, surveillance, synergy, taste, technology, text, time/temporality, violence, war
if you have an idea for a theme/issue/concept that isn’t listed above, you are welcome to write about it instead, just make sure that it is a significant social or cultural issue
Where to Watch Television Online
free streaming services: Peacock, IMDbTV, Vudu, PlutoTV, Tubi, Roku, and Crackle
library streaming services: Hoopla, Kanopy
paid streaming services: Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, Paramount Plus, and Disney
Black film services: ALLBLK, BET
LGBTQ services: Here! TV, Revry, WOW Presents Plus
Hispanic/Latinx services: Univision NOW, YipTV, Pantaya
buy/rent television episodes from Apple, Google Play, and Amazon
to find where specific television series are available to stream or rent, use the service JustWatch
Research idea
Writing Assignment Help Prompt:
For the first assignment, you are going to generate ideas for your research project. At later stages of this project, you will need to narrow down your research to one television series and one social issue, but at this point you’ll choose two of each:
Choose 2 television shows and write a 100-150 word paragraph on each, detailing why you think it’s significant and worth studying. When choosing your television shows, be mindful of shows that would pair well with the social issues you are interested in; eventually you’ll be analyzing one show and its relationship to one social issue. At any point during these assignments, you are able to change your television show or social issue. What you choose now doesn’t restrict you in future assignments.
You can choose a television series from the syllabus OR a television series not on the syllabus
You can choose non-American television series
There are two ways to start: series first or topic first
Is there a television show that you really like or are fascinated by or troubled by or want to know more about? Start with that and then consider what might be a fitting key concept or social issue that is significant in that show. Browsing through IMDb or Wikipedia might be helpful at this stage.
alternatively, is there a topic or key concept or social issue that you are interested in knowing more about? Start with that and find three television shows that depict that topic. Browsing through IMDb or Wikipedia might be helpful at this stage.
Choose 2 key concepts/social issues from the Television: The Key Concepts textbook or the list below and write a 100-150 word paragraph on each, detailing why you’re interested in that concept. If you’d like, you could start applying that concept to either of your television shows.
examples of social/cultural issues/themes/concepts: ability, access, affect, algorithm, appropriation, audience, authorship, body, brand, capitalism, celebrity, censorship, children, citizen, class, colorism, comedy, commercialization, commodification, community, convergence, crime, cultural imperialism, data, democracy, discourse, documentary, domesticity, drama, ecology, education, encoding and decoding, ethnicity, ethnography, family, fans, feminism, gaze, gender, genre, globalisation, hegemony, history, hybridity, identity, ideology, image, independence, industry, information, infrastructure, institutions, intertextuality, intersectionality, irony, justice, knowledge, labor, marxism, mass culture, melodrama, memory, mental health, narrative, nation, network, new media, nostalgia, ownership, other, pleasure, policing, policy, political economy, politics, postmodernism, power, production, public, race, realism, reflexivity, regulation/deregulation, religion, representation, resistance, science fiction, semiotics, sex/sexuality, sign, sound, space, sport, stereotypes, structuralism, surveillance, synergy, taste, technology, text, time/temporality, violence, war
if you have an idea for a theme/issue/concept that isn’t listed above, you are welcome to write about it instead, just make sure that it is a significant social or cultural issue
Where to Watch Television Online
free streaming services: Peacock, IMDbTV, Vudu, PlutoTV, Tubi, Roku, and Crackle
library streaming services: Hoopla, Kanopy
paid streaming services: Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, Paramount Plus, and Disney
Black film services: ALLBLK, BET
LGBTQ services: Here! TV, Revry, WOW Presents Plus
Hispanic/Latinx services: Univision NOW, YipTV, Pantaya
buy/rent television episodes from Apple, Google Play, and Amazon
to find where specific television series are available to stream or rent, use the service JustWatch
Excel Question
Use the Word doc to help you complete the excel workbook assignment. The word doc has steps on what u should do with the excel file I attached. I attachted an .txt file that will be needed to complete the assignment.
Formal analysis
Prompt:
For this assignment you will be given one scene from a television episode we’ve already screened and you will write a 400-450 word analysis of the formal and stylistic properties of that scene, as they relate to the meaning generated by that scene.
Vocabulary to Use in Your Analysis
(you don’t necessarily have to address all of these)
text
polysemy
visual style
narrative structure
narrative complexity
sound
editing
acting
costume
production design
realism
genre
experimentation
postmodernism
reflexivity