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Assignment Instructions Position Paper Instructions: Communication is used to inform, to persuade and to analyze. In this assignment, you will persuade the reader of your point of view by supporting a thesis with objective facts and credible evidence. In the week 2 forum, you selected your topic for this paper. You will take a stance on this issue and support your stance with credible evidence in your body paragraphs. For this assignment, you have traditional and creative options. Choose what will challenge your writing and what would be appropriate for your topic and field: Traditional 5 paragraph essay with 1 paragraph introduction, 3 body paragraphs, and 1 paragraph conclusion. Op-ed newspaper article. Blog post. Letter/proposal to stakeholders. Press release. Letter to the editor. Presidential address. Election speech (written only). Application for a position related to the topic. Defense attorney’s opening statement. Case brief. Advocacy statement. Call to action paper. Guidelines: In order to persuade the audience to accept the position you are advocating in this paper, you will use different kinds of appeals: ethos (which involves the credibility of the speaker, writer, or authority being cited); logos (which involves facts, statistics, and logic); and pathos (which involves emotions). A good persuasive argument uses credible sources, objective evidence, and emotional “hooks” to make use of logos, ethos, and pathos respectively. Be sure your thesis statement is very clear. It should be a single complete sentence, including both a subject and a predicate, that combine to make claim. Example: “The USA should be more competitive in establishing a presence on Mars.” Your introduction paragraph should include a “hook” to grab the reader’s attention. The thesis statement is typically seen in the first paragraph. Your body paragraphs will support the thesis. You should use credible sources and cite them according to the style of your discipline. Your conclusion should reiterate the strongest points from your paper and give the audience something to consider, moving forward. Requirements: PURPOSE: To persuade AUDIENCE: The applicable audience for the type of document you’ve chosen to write. LENGTH: 500 – 750 words (Times New Roman font) SOURCES: A minimum of 3 with at least 1 from the library, and at least 1 from a professional journal or organization FORMAT: The citation style that is appropriate for your discipline DUE: SUNDAY 11:55 pm EST of Week 5 SUBMIT: In ASSIGNMENTS submit your essay by uploading your Word file Use only third person (he/she/they) for a more professional tone. Avoid first person (I, my, us, we) and second person (you and your) in your essay. **Remember that all work submitted is to be your own original work except where properly acknowledged and cited. Do not reuse work, papers, or speeches from previous (or concurrent) classes as this violates APUS academic integrity policies. (Make sure to note the section on self-plagiarism.) ** Supporting Materials
Emily, Velasquez
ENGL110
Prof. Nicholas Young
Time management the best alternative to combat college stress
One can’t avoid stress because “stress is a necessary and unavoidable concomitant of daily living.”(Kamana Tripathi and Krishna Sharma 1) Since stress can not be avoided, dealing with it straightforward can be handled with being more in control and organized. That is where time management comes in handy.
time management is able to minimize the stress that comes with college.what could be causing college stress, well “Students report experiencing academic stress at predictable times each semester with the greatest sources of academic stress resulting from taking and studying for exams, grade competition, and the large amount of content to master in a small amount of time.”(Abrouserie,1994; Archer& Lamnin,1985;Britton&tesser,1991;Khon&Frazer,1986)(page 2).
This can lead to a loss of problem-solving skills and control. All these tasks can be overwhelming by asking those directly affected by academic stress as an example. To combat the multiple academic demands of college one should use time management
Time management is planing a set of times for a task throughout the 24hrs, it can be from work, school, and self-care. One can start learning to use time management by getting a journal or planner, schedule, or what most already commonly do a to-do list. This tool can assist in handling the time one has in a day without wishing for more time but still be in control of how their time is spent. In the article by Mirsa, Ranjita, and Mckean, Michelle regarding “college students’ academic stress…” it is mentioned that “the findings are also consistent with stress research showing that feeling in control of the situation is related to lower levels of stress.”
Without time management, a college student can lean towards unhealthy coping mechanisms that can lead to more stress after. Those alternatives “Students often use less desirable coping strategies such as alcohol, smoking, and using illegal drugs.”(K. Kumar and S.Kadhivarvan 1) Students with potential ruined by these coping mechanisms because they did not have any other positive alternatives taught. High school to college is a contributor because of the different playing field high school has.one can see those especially affected “within a college social system, freshman and sophomores lack the strong social support networks and have not yet developed the coping mechanisms used by juniors and seniors to deal with stress”.(Allen & Heibert 1991)Therefore, one can theorize high school did not teach them the self expectancy of managing one’s time.
High school should enforce and teach future college freshmen and sophomores the resourcefulness one can do when they “organize time schedule assignment due dates, and begging work a week in advance, an adjustment that can accommodate technological malfunctions and breaks.”(Tripathi and Sharma 1164)It should be enforced to educated that time management can help lessen the academic burden, to give a chance for incoming college students to hand them a planner for the future.
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Stress in everyday life and its management
Author: Davender; Pratibha
Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing
Causes of academic stress among college student and its managements
Author: Kamana Tripathi and Krishna Sharma
Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing
College students; academic stress and its relation to their anxiety, time management, and leisure satisfaction
Author: Mirsa, Ranjita; Mckean, Michelle
American Journal of Health Studies; Silver Spring Vol.16, ISS. 1 (2000):41-51
Perceived stress and proactive coping of college student
Authors: K. Kumar, and S. Kashiravan
Indian Journal of Positive Psychology 2013, 3 (3), 302-304