13 Dec COLL 300: Research, Analysis, and Writing

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Instructions

Item 1 of the Portfolio:  Report on the Communication in My Field of Study (due in week 2)

 

For this assignment you will complete a form, providing information about 4 things:

1. The program (discipline) you are studying (examples: Intelligence Studies or Criminal Justice)

2. The program research guide you are using and things in it

3. Analysis of one organization or website from your discipline

4. Tips for communicating with folks in your discipline

The complete form shouldn’t be longer than three pages. Less than two full pages will be considered under-developed.  Read the information below for a broad understanding of the purpose of this assignment. Refer to the attached template for more specific details on what to do.

 

What is a discourse community?

You learned earlier that writing does not exist in a vacuum, that it is a conversation between writer and reader. One scholar, Erik Borg, says that “We do not generally use language to communicate with the world at large, but with individuals or groups of individuals…these groups are gathered into communities.”

Each of us belongs to a number of these groups (called discourse communities). If you stop at a coffee shop routinely, you are a member of that community. Members know what the “rules” are for communicating with each other, what kind of greeting is used, what the standard length of comments is, what kind of comments are acceptable, and what kind are not. Other discourse communities might be related to activities with children, fitness, or church. You can probably think of examples of a conversation topic or a greeting that would be acceptable at the gym but not at church.  In this assignment, you are going to look at the communication that occurs in one of your discourse communities, the one formed by an interest in your field of study (major, program, or discipline).

 

How do I learn about the discourse community in my field?  

What will you be looking for? You will be looking at the kinds of reading and writing members of the community do; the expectations and rules (conventions) for the communication; the way they communicate with each other online; and other tips that help you understand this group.

How will you do this exploration? You will start by looking at the information linked below, first the course catalog and then in guides designed by the APUS Library staff to help researchers in the field. If your program is not listed in the 10 programs shown below, then go to this link to find your program (or one that interests you if you haven’t selected a program yet):   Research Guides by Program.   The university catalog has info on all programs, in case yours isn’t listed below.

 

Click the first link to go to the university’s catalog. This gives general information about the program. Then move to the research guide for your program. Be sure to look at all the links in the guide. Scroll down the page at each tab. 

 

· Criminal Justice     Here’s the link to the  Criminal Justice Research Guide .

· Business Administration   Here’s the link to the  Business Administration Research Guide.

· General Studies   Here’s the link to the  General Studies Research Guide.

· Management   Here’s the link to the  Management Research Guide.

· Intelligence Studies   Here’s the link to the  Intelligence Studies Research Guide.

6. Sports & Health Sciences  Here’s the link to the  Sports & Health Sciences Research Guide.

7. Psychology :  Here’s the link to the  Psychology Research Guide.

8. Homeland Security   Here’s the link to the  Homeland Security Research Guide.

9. Transportation & Logistics Management   Here’s the link to the  Transportation & Logistics Management Research Guide.

10. Environmental Science :  Here’s the link to the  Environmental Science Research Guide.

 

Once I’ve learned about my field’s discourse community, what do I do with that information?

After you have looked at the catalog description, the research guide, and information in that guide (including an organization or website), complete the following report about the way the people in your program communicate.  A template of this report is attached for your convenience. Replace the sample answers with your own words. Save it with a title like this: Smith Robert Report on Communication.  Then submit the completed form as an attachment in the assignment link.  

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Annotated Bibliography

Cristian DeWeese

Professor Prince

12/04/2022

Alotaibi, A. "Ransomware Attacks as a Cyber Crime In United States." An Exmpalatory Study (2022). Doctoral dissertation, Indiana State University

Cyber security is the cooperative approach, technology, and procedures to certify security of the reliability, discretion and availability of PCs, data and information, and networking in contrast to online hacker attacks or unconstitutional access attempts. Organizations around the world has experienced a lot of financial loss because of cyber-attacks. The research guide used includes networking/system admin, OS and Virtual machine understanding, and control of network security. In order to learn coding, different languages like C++, JavaScript and other languages from low-level programming categories are made significant. The block chain security and cloud computing are included in the components. Intruders enter the system by the means of some malware programs and attempt to steal confidential and private information which can cause serious penalties. A lot of ways are encompassed in the process of cyber-attack to certify complete access i.e. a DSS attack overflows a system or entire network with requests. In addition to this, in case of a MITM (man in the middle) attack, the intruder links with a 2-party transaction. A structured Query Language attack results in insertion of mischievous code in the server which leads to data compromise.

Chiu, V., & Yahya, M. A. "Meme Stock Vigilantism." A Quasi-Property Rights Approach. (2022): 17(1). Forthcoming Ohio State Business Law Journal.

It is the responsibility of Information Technology manager to assess the understanding of the cyber team about most trending cyber-attacks. There are a lot of procedures to ensure security against cyber-attacks. Investing time to use terminologies against cyber-attacks is necessary. Discussing cyber security deprived of methodological terminology may prove to be helpful. If internal collaboration plan is operational in the team, there are very less chances of facing problems because of cyber-attacks as the team in already active and inter-connected. Punctual review and queries are considered to be the best tactics to tackle cyber-attack issues.

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Portfolio Assignment Instructions 

Please be sure to read all of this assignment description carefully. It's very detailed. It describes two separate things. However, all items will be submitted in ONE Word document.  

1. The  portfolio that contains elements you have been working on throughout the course; and  

2. The  final paper (problem analysis) that you will include as part of the portfolio.  

Let's look at the BIG picture first, the final portfolio.    

What is a portfolio? 

A portfolio is a collection of items organized in a notebook, file, or a similar format. By collecting this information throughout a course, you can clearly see the connections among assignments as well as the progress you have made. In ENGL110, your portfolio will reflect the work you have done in a specific discipline or topic, ending with the analysis of a problem you have explored. Here are the required elements of the portfolio.  The required sections are included in the template.   

Title Page 

Table of Contents 

Item 1 of the Portfolio – Description of Discourse Community in Your Field    This is the assignment you submitted in week 2.  You are to submit a final version of the description,  including any changes recommended to you in the instructor's feedback.  

Item 2 of the Portfolio – Annotated Bibliography for your Final Paper  This is the assignment you submitted in week 4. You are to submit a final version of the annotated bibliography,  including any changes recommended to you in the instructor's feedback.  

Item 3 of the Portfolio – Final Paper – Analysis of a Problem 

This is the final problem analysis paper that is the culmination of all the work you have done in the course.  Please see the complete description of the paper below.  

Final Paper (Problem Analysis)

Assignment Instructions 

This analysis project requires you to tackle a problem within your field of study by first exploring it, its causes, and its impacts.  Then, if you want, you can recommend one or more practical solutions to solve the problem.   

After deciding on the problem you wish to tackle, begin building questions about it. Your goal for the analysis is to answer the questions through your sources. Finding multiple angles and perspectives is ideal so that you explore those possibilities in the final paper before settling on your recommendation.  Be sure to identify what is at stake.  

Here are questions to help guide your analysis: 

1. What is the problem being addressed (explain, describe, and "prove" that it exists)?  

2. Who is affected by this problem?  

3. Why does this problem exist? (Identify the root causes.)  

4. Why does the problem persist? (Identify the major factors that contribute to the problem's ongoing presence.)  

5. What is at stake if the problem is not solved? 

  If you decide to include a solution, use these questions to guide you:   

1. Who can take action?  

2. What should they do, exactly?  

3. Why would this help? 

4. What are the positive and negative aspects of your solution(s)?  

 

· PURPOSE:   To analyze a problem and possibly provide a solution 

· AUDIENCE:   Classmates, others interested in the field 

· LENGTH:   900 – 1,000 words (Times New Roman font). Please do not go significantly (~10%) under or above the word count requirement. This word count includes only the paragraphs in your final essay (not the Works Cited/References page or previously submitted sections).

· SOURCES:   5 (five) sources  from the APUS Library (These may include sources you used in previous assignments. Going under this number will cost points in grading.) 

· FORMAT:   The citation style that is appropriate for your discipline