Using a personal experience with a health care organization, explain how you were first made aware of it (advertisement, physician referral, health fair, or word of mouth, etc.) Why did you choose that particular provider or facility over one that offered similar services? Did you sense the goal of the organization was customer satisfaction? Why or why not? Will you be a repeat customer? Why or why not? Be sure to incorporate concepts from the readings for this week. Make sure to fol...

Summary of the Assignment: • Task: In this assignment, you will prepare a PowerPoint presentation, with audio, to the full-time workers and Mark Carman as a follow-up to your report to Mr. Carman. • Length: Your presentation will comprise 5-8 slides and be 4-7 minutes in length. • Graphics: You must include at least three graphics .Brief Description and Strategies to Follow: You have written a report to Mark Carman about the concerns you have about Work ‘N Suds. Mr. Carman has now asked...

  Steps to Take in Completing this Assignment • Locate a job posting in your field. Helpful resources in finding a job posting include the following UMGC Career Services pages: o Job Search Websites. o Federal Job Search page • Submit the following to the Assignment folder in one document: o the job posting copied and pasted from the website. Copying and pasting the job posting will make sure your instructor sees the posting even if the link to the posting expires. o the cover l...

Summary of the Assignment: • Task: In this assignment, you will write a short report to the owner of a company to which you have just been hired. • Length: 1500-2200 words, single-spaced • Graphics: You must integrate at least two graphics. Details on the two graphics are provided below. • Sources: You will integrate at least five sources into the report, at least two of which have to come from scholarly journals or a credible trade journals. The Situation and Your Role In It You have b...

Summary of the Assignment: • Task: In this assignment, you will write a one-page quick start guide for the set of instructions that you wrote for writing assignment #2. • Length: There is no minimum or maximum word count. However, your quick start guide can be no longer than one page. • Graphics: You must include some graphics to help the user follow the guide. o As with writing assignment #2, all graphics should be screen captures of the website you are demonstrating. o The graphics do ...

Brief Description and Strategies to Follow: Please keep in mind the following principles when writing this assignment: • You must provide instructions on how to accomplish a task on a website. The website must be for a regional or local organization or company in your area. For example, you could write about how to order a pizza from a local pizza shop in your town. You could write about how to purchase an item from a local shop in your area (not from Amazon). • National chains are not al...

Summary of the Assignment: • Task: In this assignment, you will write three personas to prepare for writing assignment #2, the set of instructions that explain how to accomplish a task on a website. You want to read the instructions for writing assignment #2 before writing your personas. • Sample papers o You should access the sample papers for writing assignments #1 and #2 for helpful models. o You can watch a video that reviews sample papers for writing assignments #1 and #2. • Length:...

For this discussion topic, imagine that you are an intern at Asax, Inc.  You work in the human resources (HR) department. One of the administrators in HR, Harold, has drafted an email message to inform employees at Asax, Inc. about the tuition remission benefit that the company offers. However, your supervisor has asked you to look at the message and improve it before it is sent out. Your supervisor said to you, “When Harold writes a message, we usually get about 15-20 email messages fr...

  The Gunning Fog Index was developed in 1952 by Robert Gunning, a textbook publisher. Gunning observed that high school graduates were not able to read much of what was written in newspapers and business documents. He determined that the reason for their inability to read such material was the writing. He felt that many of the texts in newspapers and business documents were unnecessarily complex. The Gunning Fog Index calculates the complexity of passages of text using an algorithm. ...

Discussion topic for week 6: Resume and Cover Letter Tips from UMGC's Career Services Unit Tips from UMGC's Career Services Unit on writing resumes Resumes | UMGC  ____ Tips from UMGC's Career Services Unit on writing cover letters Cover Letters | UMGC ____ Then answer the following questions: For these questions, refer to the Resumes page: What approach might you take for your resume -- the chronological approach or the functional approach? Why? Using two of the ...