UMUC WRTG394 Week 2 Discussion Latest 2019 MAY Question # 00601645 Subject: Education Due on: 05/25/2019 Posted On: 05/25/2019 08:25 AM Tutorials: 1 Rating: 4.5/5

WRTG394 Advanced Business Writing

Week 2 Discussion

DQ1 The six
principles of good writing in light of Amazon’s strategy

In the
Content for week 2, you are reading a section titled “Good Writing.” In that section, Edward Bailey’s six points of
good writing are listed.

Please take
note of Bailey’s six points of good writing.
Then access the following message from Jeff Bezos to shareholders at
Amazon.com:

Read:
Message from Jeff Bezos to Amazon Shareholders

(The
message is also available in your list of resources in Content for week 2.)

Please read
only the section of this message titled, “Six-Page Narratives.” You don’t have to read the whole
message.

Then answer
the following questions:

In banning
PowerPoint and asking for six-page memos, is Jeff Bezos violating any of
Bailey’s six principles? If so, which
ones does he seem to violate, and why do you make the case that he violates
them? If not, explain why his strategy
does not violate any of the six principles.

Why might
Bezos prefer a six-page memo read silently for 30 minutes at the beginning of a
meeting to a PowerPoint presentation?
What advantage might such a memo have over a PowerPoint presentation?

Please feel
free to conduct your own searches on this issue. Various articles have been written about
Amazon’s ban of PowerPoint in its internal meetings, and these articles have
additional quotes from Bezos.

DQ2 Exercises
on library tutorials #1, #2, and #3

Through
this Library Exercise, you will practice the OneSearch techniques covered in
the Library Tutorial Videos. This will help you understand how to find sources
for assignment #2 and other assignments. When it comes to honing your research
skills for the assignments in this course, as in all other aspects of life,
practice makes perfect!

The
following task is designed to help you become familiar with UMUC’s Information
and Library Services. Completing these
exercises will help you get started on developing a topic for the final
research-based report.

Please
watch library tutorial #1, video tutorial #2, and video tutorial #3. These tutorials are linked to at the top of
the list of Content items for this week.
The tutorials are designed to demonstrate some searching strategies when
finding articles through OneSearch, a research tool that allows you to search
on many databases at one time.

After you
have watched the tutorials, please complete the following tasks. Post your responses to this conference
thread.

Let us
assume you work for a company that is hiring more and more employees of the
Generation Z generation.

Your
supervisor has asked you to conduct research on issues regarding employees from
Generation Z. For example, she mentions
that Generation Z individuals may have different expectations of the work
environment from those of workers from older generations. In addition, she mentions that Generation Z
has different habits with regard to their use of technology than workers from
older generations exhibit.

The
instructions you have been given by your supervisor are quite broad. But let us assume that this is the directive
you have been given.

For this
reason, you will conduct a very general search on Generation Z and their work
or technology habits. You are not quite
sure how to focus the topic, but you know that you would like to pursue this
general topic and focus it later.

1. Using
the strategies discussed in library video tutorial #1, search on some terms and
find four articles on this topic. Your
search can be quite broad at this stage.
Try to use some search phrases that require that you use quotation marks,
as the video demonstrates.

Please
write the topic on which you searched and the search terms you used to search
on it.

2. Again,
using the strategies from library video tutorial #1, for the four articles you
found, please write titles of the four articles and the journals in which they
appeared. You don’t have to cite
anything in APA format, or anything of that nature. Just post the titles and the journal names.

3. Using
the strategies discussed in library video tutorial #2, conduct a new search on
a phrase related to your major or to a workplace topic of interest to you. As the video demonstrates, make sure to use
quotation marks around the phrase you search on.

-What
phrase(s) did you search on?

-How many
search results do you get?

4. Then,
applying the tips in library video tutorial #2, focus your search from question
#2 by using the SU-subject terms option from the drop-down menu for one of the
rows.

-How many
search results do you find after limiting the search by using SU-subject terms?

5. Finally,
using the strategies mentioned in library video tutorial #3, locate the
research guide for your major. If you
have not declared a major yet, please select one that interests you from the options
from the drop-down menu.

Peruse the
research guide for that major. Describe
to the rest of the class in a few sentences any interesting resources you
discovered.

If you have
the same major as another student in the class, this would be a great time to
collaborate and share any resources you found with which others might not be
familiar.