Planning to Write your Ethical Considerations for X Agency, Staff Study
Planning to Write your Ethical Considerations for X Agency, Staff Study
[WLOs: 1, 2] [CLOs: 2, 3, 4, 5]
This week’s assignment is designed to help you prepare to write your final project. Your final project is divided into two major elements across Weeks 4 and 5.
In Week 4, you will record a professional presentation of your findings to a simulated Congressional sub-committee hearing via video. This will be a high-level overview, summarizing the findings in your written report, which is due in Week 5. In addition, in Week 4 you will provide a draft of your written Ethical Considerations for X Agency, Staff Study (and in turn review the drafts of two of your peers’ papers) in preparation for turning in a polished, professionally-written Staff Study in Week 5.
For the purposes of these linked assignments, you have just been promoted to the newly created role of Chief Ethics Officer. You will need to conduct a thorough evaluation of the state of ethics at your agency and report on your findings. You will (at your discretion) write about either a Homeland Security or Emergency Management agency. Select an agency or office within the Department of Homeland Security from the organizational chart below.
Prepare:
· Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review each of the resources below:
· review the Final Assignment Explainer video. This explainer video encourages students to begin working on their final project and will talk them through each component of the final project.
· review the Week 5 Staff Study (Final Project) assignment instructions.
Chart by
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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(2023).
Check the
Organizational Chart
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in the DHS website.
For more details, check:
·
Operational and Support Components
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·
Leadership
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For the
Planning to Write Your Ethical Consideration for X Agency, Staff Study: For the Full Sentence outline, you will develop a full sentence outline that will help you plan for writing your Staff Study (final written project) and submit it to Waypoint. Creating a full-sentence outline will help you organize and structure your ideas in advance so that you know how to present your ideas logically and clearly when you begin writing. The assignment must be formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s
APA Style
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and
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Write:
The
Planning to Write Your Ethical Consideration for X Agency, Staff Study: Full-Sentence outline must:
· identify the agency or office within the Department of Homeland Security that will be used as the basis for your final Staff Study and Video presentation.
· describe the mission of the agency/office you will be writing your perspective from.
· explain the perspective you will be writing from.
· Homeland Security or Emergency Management
· propose a tentative thesis that gives purpose and direction to the project.
· Remember that your thesis statement will summarize the problem or question you are addressing. This is your main idea, which you will explain and provide details on in the main project.
· The Writing Center
Writing a Thesis Statement
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resource may be helpful.
· construct a full-sentence outline for your Week 5 Staff Study (final written report) that:
· Outlines at least 5, but no more than 10, sections (main points) through full-topic sentences.
· Outlines at least 2, but no more than 4, supporting sub-topics or subsections through full sentences for each of the main sections.
· must include a separate title page with the following:
· title of Report in bold font
· Space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page.
· student’s name
· name of the institution (The University of Arizona Global Campus)
· course name and number
· instructor’s name
· due date
· must utilize academic voice. See the
Academic Voice
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resource for additional guidance.
· Resources are not required but may be used if you have already identified
Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources
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that will support your Staff Study.
· If sources are used, all in-text citations and reference entries must be provided as outlined in the Writing Center’s
APA Style
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resource.
· The
Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources
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table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
· To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, view the
Quick and Easy Library Research
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tutorial, which introduces the University of Arizona Global Campus Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips.
