Executive summaries and abstracts do more than simply summarize the main points of your report. As the first section of the report that your readers will see, they play an important role in the achievement of your report’s purpose. The executive summary/abstract should communicate the information and/or research that is most likely to convince your audience that they should read your report, so the information you include in this opening section should be very thoughtfully chosen.

To help you write an effective executive summary or abstract, read the following articles, then find an executive summary or abstract to analyze based on what you’ve learned.

Readings

• How to Write an Executive Summary: A Quick Guide [Link to: https://www.projectmanager.com/blog/write-an-executive-summary (Links to an external site.)]
• 5 crucial elements of an executive summary [Link to: https://blog.pandadoc.com/how-to-write-executive-summary/ (Links to an external site.)]

The Activity

The following reports contain examples of executive summaries/abstracts. Reading only the executive summaries/abstracts, then answer the following questions:

• https://library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?explnum_id=10437 (Links to an external site.)
• https://www.sandag.org/uploads/publicationid/publicationid_1203_5355.pdf (Links to an external site.)

1. Can you identify the report’s purpose or goal?
2. Do you get a sense of audience? Who is this report for?
3. What report content/sections are included in the abstract? Do you get the sense that this information is important?
4. What research is included in the report? Does the research included give you the sense that the report is well-researched, credible and/or thorough?
5. Does the executive summary/abstract convince you that reading the report would be worth your time? Why? Why not?

Finally, compare the two summaries you analyzed. What are the similarities and differences? What does each do well? What could be improved?

Assignment Guidelines for the Proposal Argument Essay

Purpose:  to write an essay that develops logical and effective organization of ideas and a conclusion that opens up the argument to wider application; develop well-qualified claims with reasons and with evidence that are appropriate to the audience.

The proposal argument aims to solve a problem.  Specifically, a proposal argument is a “call to act and advocates a plan of action.”  This type of essay is also referred to as a “should/should not” argument because they oblige a target audience to respond:  A should do B because of C.

Assignment Task:  Write a multi-paragraph proposal essay on a debatable issue/problem with how society is reacting to digital technology.  Your research-supported answer to this question will serve as your proposal argument. Your essay will provide clear reasons why your proposal should be adopted, or at least seriously considered, and explain why your proposal may work.  Your introduction should identify that this is a genuine problem that needs solving.

Organizing Your Essay:  [See Corresponding Module for Details]

Use of Visuals:  You can also use visuals in your argument, but be sure to label them and refer to them in the body of your essay.

Sources: You will need to include a minimum of 2 sources in this essay. Each source should be documented in your essay according to MLA in-text and Works Cited guidelines.

Refer to MLA pages in the textbook and/or consult Purdue Owl for specific guidance in documenting your sources and visuals.  MLA Works Cited Page Guide 8th Edition.pdf Download MLA Works Cited Page Guide 8th Edition.pdf

Audience:  General audience of concerned citizens that are interested in this topic but have limited information.

For this modules assignment please do the following:

1. Review the CDC’s page titled: Promoting Health for Older Adults (Promoting Health for Older Adults | CDC)

• • Please note that it is also included as a PDF file in this module.

2. Then chose one of the featured steps to improve the health of older adults found below:

• Helping those with dementia remain active, independent, and involved in their community as long as possible.
• Providing resources to help caregivers stay healthy and deliver quality care to their care recipients.
• Increasing early assessment and diagnosis, risk reduction, and prevention and management of chronic diseases for people with or at risk for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.
• Increasing the use of other clinical preventive services like blood pressure checks, cancer screenings, and blood sugar testing.
• Increasing the number of people who speak to a health care provider about their worsening memory.
• Providing CDC-recognized lifestyle change programs to Medicare beneficiaries through the National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP) to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes.
• Promoting physical activity programs to reduce the risk of dementia, arthritis pain, and falls.

3. You will then create a pamphlet with four sections (or four slides or panels) about your chosen step. The purpose of this pamphlet is to promote your step of choice. Your pamphlet can be completed by hand (evidently it would need to be neat) and you can submit pictures of it, or you can proceed to complete it through other “more professional means.”

Your pamphlet can include any of the following (keep in mind that these are only ideas, please be creative)

• Colorful Images
• Important Statistics
• Information on Research Findings
• Ideas about costs and other financial considerations
• Suggestions about organizations that could help in the process
• Advantages of implementing your chosen step

Discussion #5: Immigration

For this discussion, please do the following:

First, listen to 1 of the 2 podcasts listed below:

• Immigrants In ICE Detention Face The Threat Of COVID-19 (Links to an external site.)
• For Immigrant Communities, Coronavirus Is A Different Kind Of Threat (Links to an external site.)

1. What does COVID-19 expose about immigration and the status of immigrants in the United States?

2. How does the information (from any of the assigned content) on immigration link up or fit together with information on other inequalities that you have been discussing in 157SL this semester (e.g. income, health, race, incarceration, etc.)?

Second, read this article about the U.S. Immigration Debate

3. What new information about immigration did you learn from this article? What key aspects of immigration law and/or immigration reform stood out to you most and why? What aspects of immigration law and/or immigration reform do you think are most promising in terms resolving the immigration debate and why?

(350-400 words – state your word count on top of your answer.)

Make use of any combination of 157SL materials (readings, documentaries, discussions, etc.) to explain and support your position but be sure connect your arguments, thoughts, and ideas clearly and substantially to the content from the podcasts and article linked above. Note: you can take any position you want. Regardless of what your position is, you will be graded on the quality of your argument, including how effectively you explain and support your position using 157SL materials.

#1 Discrete versus Continuous Mathematics in Computer Science

What is discrete mathematics? What is continuous mathematics? How does statistics fit into this mathematical continuum? How does computer science use both discrete and continuous mathematics?

#2 Population versus Sample

In startstics, what is a sample? What is a population? What is the difference between the two? Why are these 2 concepts vital to statistical analysis?

Please watch the following lecture videos.

1. Class Administration and Introduction

2. Introduction to Statistical Analysis

3. Understanding Central Tendency: A Critical Statistical Set of Concepts

Work Set 1 Central Tendency

Please watch the class videos and complete the readings before completing this assignment.

Consider the following set:

{2,3,7,12,4,7,11,10,6,9,9,3}

1. Are their outliers? Why?

2. What is the mode?

3. What is the median?

4. What is the mean?

Which of the three, mean, median, and mode are resistant to outliers?

Consider the following set:

{14, 300, 7,2, 11,15,9,6,4,7,3,7,21,32}

1. Are their outliers? Why?

2. What is the mode?

3. What is the median?

4. What is the mean?

Consider the following set:

{2,2,7,9,4,3,3,5,9,0, 88}

1. Are their outliers? Why?

2. What is the mode?

3. What is the median?

4. What is the mean?