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• COM 156 Entire Course
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• COM 156 Week 1 Individual Research Plan (Appendix
  D)
• COM 156 Week 1 DQ 1
• COM 156 Week 1 DQ 2
• COM 156 Week 1 DQ 3
• COM 156 Week 2 Individual Strategies

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• COM 156 Week 1 DQ 1
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• WEEK 1 DQ 1 People often come across research in
  everyday life or are curious about a topic and
  decide to conduct their own research. Identify a
  time you wanted to research something and explain
  how you performed the research and what you
  learned as a result. How can you apply this
  experience to your own academic research?

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• COM 156 Week 1 DQ 2
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• WEEK 1 DQ 2 Review Ch. 1, Section 2 of Writing
  for Success. What are the suggested methods for
  selecting a research topic? What method do you
  think will work best for you and why?

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• COM 156 Week 1 DQ 3
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• WEEK 1 DQ 3 Consider the time management tips
  you have learned in previous courses. What types
  of information should you include in your project
  schedule? How do you plan to manage your research
  and writing to ensure your project is completed
  on time? Remember to change the subject line of
  your post to reflect the main idea!?

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• COM 156 Week 1 Individual Research Plan (Appendix
  D)
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• n most cases, students are simultaneously
  enrolled in COM/156 and PSY/201. Suggested
  research topics for your final paper are listed
  below. The paper is an informative paper and not
  a persuasive paper, where you would be asked to
  take a stand and support it.
• Resources Appendix A Appendix D

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• COM 156 Week 2 DQ 1
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• WEEK 2 DQ 1 What websites do you normally
  frequent? Are these websites credible? When is
  credibility more important and when is it less
  important? Support your answers with specific
  examples. Remember to change the subject line to
  reflect the main idea of your post! I look
  forward to reading your replies!

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• COM 156 Week 2 DQ 2
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• WEEK 2 DQ 2 What should you consider when
  searching for useful sources? How do you know
  when sources are reliable? What are some red
  flags that indicate you should avoid a particular
  source?

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• COM 156 Week 2 DQ 3
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• WEEK 2 DQ 3 Is it difficult to determine a
  sources bias? What difficulties might you face
  as you critically read and analyze a source?

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• COM 156 Week 2 Individual Strategies for
  Gathering and Evaluating Sources (Appendix E)
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• Resource Appendix E
• Locate three sources you think you can use to
  support your final project. At least two of these
  sources should come from the University Library.
• Evaluate each source by answering the questions
  in Appendix E.

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• COM 156 Week 3 DQ 1
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• WEEK 3 DQ 1 What is a style guide? Is adhering
  to a style guide important? Why or why not?

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• COM 156 Week 3 DQ 2
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• WEEK 3 DQ 2 University of Phoenix selected the
  Publication Manual of the American Psychological
  Association as a resource for all academic
  writing. The manual is the style guide most often
  used for writing in disciplines such as business
  and education, though some other fields have
  their own style guides. Do you think the
  university was wise to choose a style guide for
  the entire university? Why or why not?

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• COM 156 Week 3 DQ 3
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• WEEK 3 DQ 3 Imagine the impact of sending a
  business letter or memo that is improperly
  formatted. In particular, think about rules or
  standards that must be followed at your place of
  business. Do you think the reasons for rules and
  tradition for communication at your workplace
  apply to academic writing? Why, or why not?

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• COM 156 Week 3 Individual Writing an Annotated
  Bibliography and Quoting, Summarizing, and
  Paraphrasing a Source (Appendix F)
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• Review the feedback you received on your Week Two
  Assignment (Appendix E).
• Review AppendixF.
• Complete the two-part assignment described in
  Appendix F.

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• COM 156 Week 4 DQ 1
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• WEEK 4 DQ 1 A good thesis statement helps guide
  the rest of your paper. Do you think this is
  true? Is it true of a poor thesis statement as
  well? Why?

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• COM 156 Week 4 DQ 2
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• WEEK 4 DQ 3 Do you think the following is a weak
  or strong thesis statement The subject of this
  paper is my experience with teaching elementary
  school children? If yes, why is it weak? How
  could you improve it? If no, what qualities do
  you think it has that make it adequate?

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• COM 156 Week 4 DQ 3
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• WEEK 4 DQ 3 Do you think the following is a weak
  or strong thesis statement The subject of this
  paper is my experience with teaching elementary
  school children? If yes, why is it weak? How
  could you improve it? If no, what qualities do
  you think it has that make it adequate?

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• COM 156 Week 4 Individual Thesis Statement
  (Appendix G)
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• Resource Appendix G
• Use the following thesis equation in this Weeks
  reading to develop a thesis statement for your
  research essay
• limited topic controlling idea, point,
  attitude, or slant thesis statement
• Post your assignment as a Microsoft Word
  attachment via the Assignments link for your
  instructors approval and feedback.

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• COM 156 Week 5 DQ 1
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• WEEK 5 DQ 1 The video Developing Outlines
  provides an overview of the purpose of planning
  an outline. Does an outline make the writing
  process go more smoothly? How?

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• COM 156 Week 5 DQ 2
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• WEEK 5 DQ 2 In our assigned article, Tips on
  Honing Your Writing, we are told the outline is
  the most important step in writing it is the
  architecture of writing words and sentences are
  just the interior decoration (p. 103). Does this
  statement surprise you? Why or why not? Why is
  the outline the most important stepeven more
  that the actual draft?

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• COM 156 Week 5 DQ 3
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• WEEK 5 DQ 3 In the writing process you use
  developing an outline, planning topic sentences,
  and identifying supporting points in planning and
  writing your final essay. Do you think these
  steps are essential? Why or why not?

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• COM 156 Week 5 Individual Outline (Appendix H)
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• Resource Appendix H
• Review the criteria for outlines in the
  Developing Outlines video on the student
  website.
• Create an outline, using Appendix H, with details
  that support your thesis.
• Outline only the body of your paper.
• Remember to avoid bias to strengthen
  your writing and present a balanced

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• COM 156 Week 6 DQ 1
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• WEEK 6 DQ 1 It is important that an essay not be
  a series of quotes or paraphrased material ones
  own analysis must be part of the essay. How can
  you create a balance between your own analysis
  and the source material?

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• COM 156 Week 6 DQ 2
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• WEEK 6 DQ 2 Choose one of the following
  scenarios
• The leadership role of women in national politics
  has changed dramatically in the last 60 years.
• Teachers and parents are concerned with whether
  standardized tests are a good indicator of a
  child's intelligence.
• A healthy diet and regular exercise improve
  health and lower health care costs.
• Is there one best way to support each of these
  topics? If yes, which one, and why? If no, why
  not?

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• COM 156 Week 6 DQ 3
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• WEEK 6 DQ 3 Parallelism, sentence variety, and
  sentence clarity are necessary to effectively
  complete your body paragraphs. Why? How might you
  use them?

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• COM 156 Week 6 Individual Body Paragraphs
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• Resources Center for Writing Excellence
• WritePoint
• Plagiarism Checker
• Sample Paper (APA and Writing Style
  Guidelines)
• Grammar and Writing Guides APA
  Reference and Citation Examples
• Create the body paragraphs of your research paper
  by converting your outline into the body of your
  paper. (You will write the introduction and
  conclusion in Week Seven.)

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• COM 156 Week 7 DQ 1
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• WEEK 7 DQ 1 Ch. 9, Section 4 of Writing for
  Success explains the role an effective
  introduction should have in a paper. What aspect
  of writing an introduction do you anticipate may
  be a challenge for you? Why?

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• COM 156 Week 7 DQ 2
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• WEEK 7 DQ 2 What type of introduction do you
  plan to write for your paper? Why did you choose
  this type of introduction?

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• COM 156 Week 7 DQ 3
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• WEEK 7 DQ 3 One purpose of the introduction is
  to draw readers into your topic. Is that
  important? Why or why not?

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• COM 156 Week 7 Individual Introduction and
  Conclusion (Appendix I)v
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• Resource Appendix I
• Review the components of an effective
  introduction and an effective conclusion outlined
  in this Weeks reading and Appendix I.
• Write the introduction for your research paper.
  Use techniques to draw readers into your thesis.
• Write a conclusion for your research paper that
  effectively summarizes your paper.

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• COM 156 Week 8 DQ 1
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• WEEK 8 DQ 1 What was your experience using the
  Center for Writing Excellence in the past? In
  addition to the Center for Writing Excellence,
  what other writing tools are available for
  revising a research paper?

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• COM 156 Week 8 DQ 2
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• WEEK 8 DQ 2 In addition to the Center for
  Writing Excellence, what other writing tools
  might you rely on for revising a research paper?

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• COM 156 Week 8 DQ 3
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• WEEK 8 DQ 3 In which areas do you think you need
  to improve? How will you make these improvements.

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• COM 156 Week 8 Individual Revision Analysis
  (Appendix J)
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• Review Appendix J.
• Use Appendix J as a checklist or prewriting tool
  before you write your response.
• Write a 300- to 400-word response to the
  following in a new Microsoft Word document
• Describe, in detail, the feedback you
  received from WritePoint, from the Plagiarism
  Checker report through the Center for Writing
  Excellence, from your facilitator, and from any
  peers in a peer-review thread.

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• COM 156 Week 9 DQ 1
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• WEEK 9 DQ 1 his course has provided you with
  several writing strategies and skills you can use
  to improve your writing. Which strategies or
  skills from the do you think will be most helpful
  as you develop as a writer and researcher? Why?

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• COM 156 Week 9 DQ 2
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• WEEK 9 DQ 2 The introduction in this course of
  the Publication Manual of the American
  Psychological Association as a resource for
  writing was to increase your confidence when
  using it. Was that goal accomplished? Why or why
  not?

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• COM 156 Week 9 DQ 3
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• WEEK 9 DQ 3 What is still your biggest challenge
  with APA formatting? How might you overcome it?

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• COM 156 Week 9 Individual Research Paper
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• Resource Appendix A Appendix K
• Compose a 1,450- to 1,700-word research paper.
• Include the following elements in your research
  paper
• Title page
• Introduction with a thesis statement

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