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Writing Assignment #3

The Multiple-Source Synthesis Essay: Literature Review

Summary of Assignment

·Task: The multiple-source essay asks you to synthesize the arguments of at least 10 sources

·Length: 2000-3000 words

·Format: APA ·Sources: a total of at least 10 sources, all of which should be from scholarly

journals or credible trade journals. You should find your sources through library searches. If you

cite sources from websites or popular journals, these sources should be in addition to the 10

sources you have cited from scholarly or trade journals.

·Topic: Please use the same topic that you used for writing assignments #1 and #2. It is

recommended that you focus on or expand on the essay that you wrote for writing assignment

#2. You will continue with the topic you have selected and will conduct additional searches in

the library databases, hopefully, focusing on the topic more, and determining the 10 or more

sources to use in this essay. Please note that this is a review of the literature on a topic. It is not

a persuasive essay using sources to support a point. Rather it is an overview of the current

research on a topic.

Integration of Sources: At least eight sources must be cited in the body of the essay. You may

cite sources in your introduction to help you define terms, and you may cite sources in your

conclusion to help you direct the reader to further inquiry. However, the body of the essay

should synthesize at least 8 sources.

Strategies for Developing the Topic for this Essay

Up to this point in the semester, you have completed an annotated bibliography on your chosen

topic. You have also incorporated and synthesized six sources into writing assignment #2. The

work you have completed for these assignments provides a solid foundation for writing

assignment #3. In this assignment, you will synthesize the ideas of at least 10 sources in a

synthesis essay, or literature review. For your annotated bibliography, you selected a topic based

on your interests and, potentially, your major. You constructed a list of five references and

summarized and critically analyzed them in 150-200 words each. You then completed the

six-source essay and synthesized sources. Through this process, you may have seen patterns in

the scholarly literature in the topic on which you conducted research. For example, consider the

following examples:

•You may have researched studies in criminal justice and found that there are varying opinions

on how to respond to criminal behavior among youth.

•·You may have researched studies in psychology and found that counseling strategies for

victims of domestic abuse tend to fall into four categories.

•·You may have researched articles on gerontology and found studies that answered three basic

questions on how older adults respond to training for physical performance.

•·You may have researched articles on environmental management and found studies on

climate change. You noticed that various demographic factors influence whether individuals

believe in climate change and, if so, whether they believe it is caused by human activity.

In the synthesis essay, you will focus your research efforts in a particular area, as a response to

what you found while writing the annotated bibliography and in constructing the six-source

essay. You will then conduct more research and synthesize your findings in this literature review.

Please note that the annotated bibliography and the six-source essay represent a journey in

your research.

You might decide to disregard several of the articles you analyzed in the critical annotated

bibliography or in the following essay because they do not speak to the specific area on which

you have decided to write your multiple-source literature review. You might select one article

that you analyzed in the critical annotated bibliography, look up the articles cited in that article,

and “snowball” your research in that way.

In other words, this process is a recursive one. You might find reasons to hone in on and narrow

your topic even further after you have written the annotated bibliography.

For these reasons, you are strongly encouraged to write on the same general topic on which you

wrote writing assignment #2. You might focus on the topic more for writing assignment #3. Or

you might expand on the topic for writing assignment #3.

How to organize the multiple-source essay:

You will divide the essay into categories. Each category will be labeled with a heading. For you

to see this concept with a real-life example, you can access a sample synthesis or literature

review from a psychology student that you can find in Week 7 Content/Resources under

PSYCHSample_LitReview.

The student authors her paper on the following topic: Emotional Eating: The Perpetual Cycle of

MoodFood Influence. She divides her literature into the following categories, which are used as

headings throughout the paper:

•Influence of Mood on Eating Behavior

•Gender Differences

•Influence of Eating Behavior on Later Moods

•Chronic Stress Response Network

Notice how she synthesizes and integrates the research into distinct categories, labeled by

headings.

Strategies for Developing Categories

When you have focused on your topic, determine how you will divide the literature. In other

words, consider the following examples we described above:

You may have researched studies in criminal justice and found that there are varying opinions

on how to respond to criminal behavior among youth.

You might divide the paper as follows:

Introduction

Body

● ·Category 1: “A” view on responding to criminal behavior.

● ·Category 2: “B” view on responding to criminal behavior.

● ·Category 3: “C” view on responding to criminal behavior.

● ·Category 4: “D” view on responding to criminal behavior.

Conclusion

You may have researched studies in psychology and found that counseling strategies for victims

of domestic abuse tend to fall into four categories. You might divide the paper as follows:

Introduction

Body

● ·Category 1: “A” counseling strategy for victims of child abuse

● ·Category 2: “B” counseling strategy for victims of child abuse

● ·Category 3: “C” counseling strategy for victims of child abuse

● ·Category 4: “D” counseling strategy for victims of child abuse

Conclusion

You may have researched articles on gerontology and found studies that answered three basic

questions on how older adults respond to training for physical performance. You might divide

the paper as follows:

Introduction

Body

● ·Question 1

● ·Question 2

● ·Question 3

Conclusion

You may have researched articles on environmental management and found studies on climate

change. You noticed that various demographic factors influence whether individuals believe in

climate change and, if so, whether they believe it is caused by human activity. You might divide

the paper as follows:

Introduction

Body

● ·Political affiliation and its impact on belief in climate change

● ·Socio-economic status and its impact on belief in climate change

● ·Religious and other influences on belief in climate change

Conclusion

Point of view

For this essay, you will use a third-person point of view. Please do not use the first person point

of view (e.g., “I,” “me,” “we”) in writing this essay. In addition, please do not use a

second-person point of view (“you” or “your”) in writing this essay. For example, instead of

“Smith argues that, as a director, you have a duty to coordinate cybersecurity efforts…” you

would write, “Smith argues that directors have a duty to coordinate cybersecurity efforts…”

APA Style

The paper should be formatted in APA style. The link “APA 7th edition example student paper”

from Week 3 will be a helpful resource. In summary, you should observe the following:

● ·Use one-inch margins.

● ·Double space.

● ·Use size 12 Times New Roman font.

● ·Include a running head.

● ·Include page numbers.

● ·Include a title page.

● ·Include a “References” page on which you list the articles in APA style

● ·Do not include an abstract. This paper is not long enough to warrant an abstract.

Submitting the assignment:

You will submit a first draft of the essay to the assignment folder. The first draft will not be

graded. The instructor will provide comments on it. After receiving comments from the

instructor, you will submit a revised draft. The final draft will be graded.

Helpful Resources:

·Graff, G. and Birkenstein, C., They Say / I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing with

Readings. This chapter is in the e-reserves of our class. It mentions various techniques to apply

in stating what an author said and your response to the author. It is recommended that you

read that chapter so that you might apply these techniques to this essay.

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July 1, 2023

Excel Chapter 1 Mid-Level 2 - Real Estate Sales Report

Exp22_Excel_Ch01_ML2_Sales

Exp22 Excel Ch01 ML2 Sales

Project Description:

You own a small real estate company in Indianapolis. You track the real estate properties you list for clients. You want to analyze sales for selected properties. Yesterday, you prepared a workbook with a worksheet for recent sales data and another worksheet listing several properties you listed. You want to calculate the number of days that the houses were on the market and their sales percentage of the list price. In one situation, the house was involved in a bidding war between two families that really wanted the house. Therefore, the sale price exceeded the list price.

Start Excel. Download and open the file named Exp22_Excel_Ch01_ML2_Sales.xlsx. Grader has automatically added your last name to the beginning of the filename.

The owners of the house on 640 North Oak Drive took their house off the market. You want to delete that row since it did not sell.

In the April worksheet, delete row 10, which has incomplete sales data.

The listings are organized by date listed. The 973 East Mulberry Lane listing needs to be moved up in the list.

Select and cut row 13 and insert cut cells on row 10.

You want to assign a property ID to each listing. The code will have the year 2024 with a sequential number.

Type 2024-001 in cell A5 and use Auto Fill to complete the series to assign a property ID to each property in the range A6:A13.

Real estate agents study the number of days houses are on the market. In some cases, the longer a house is on the market, it might indicate the asking price is too high.

Enter a formula in cell C5 that calculates the number of days the first house was on the market by subtracting the date listed from the date sold. Copy the formula to the range C6:C13.

Monetary values look better when they are formatted to display the dollar signs. Because all monetary values are whole numbers, you will decrease the decimal points to avoid columns where all the data ends in .00.

Format the list prices and sold prices in the range F5:G13 with Accounting Number Format with zero decimal places.

To analyze the real estate market, it is helpful to calculate the selling prices as a percentage of the list price. For example, the second house was listed for $500,250, but it sold for only $400,125. Therefore, the sale percentage of the list price is .7999 or 79.99%.

Enter a formula in cell H5 that calculates the sales price percentage of the list price for the first house by dividing the sold price by the list price. Copy the formula to the range H6:H13.

The calculated percentages need to be formatted with the percent symbol rather than displaying the values as raw numbers.

Format the values in the range H5:H13 with Percent Style with two decimal places.

Currently, the labels on row 4 are hard to read. You will wrap the headings within each cell to improve readability.

Center horizontally and wrap the headings in the range A4:H4.

For better sequencing of columns, you want to display the Days on Market column after the two columns containing the dates.

Insert a new column between the Date Sold and List Price columns. Move the Days on Market data to the new blank column F by moving the range C4:C13 to F4:F13. Delete column C.

You notice the list contains a wrong date and wrong list price that need to be corrected.

Edit the date sold of the 41 Chestnut Circle house to be 4/22/2024.

Increasing the height of the rows of data and centering the data vertically between the top and bottom cell margins will make it easier for the other agents to review the data.

Select the property rows (rows 5:13), set a 25 row height, and apply Middle Align.

Displaying borders helps separate the property listings.

Apply the All Borders border style to the range A4:H13.

You want to improve the alignment of number of days on market below the column label.

Apply Align Right and increase the indent two times on the days on market formula results in the range E5:E13.

You noticed some misspelled words in the worksheet.

Use Excel to check the spelling and correct misspelled words.

You don't need the data on the Properties sheet but you do want to copy the April worksheet to create a template for May.

Delete the Properties sheet. Insert a new sheet named May. Make sure the May sheet is the second sheet tab.

You want to copy the original data to the new sheet so that you can modify the duplicated data.

Use the Select All feature to select all data on the April worksheet and copy it to the May worksheet. Use the paste option to Keep Source Column Widths.

After copying data from the April worksheet to the May worksheet, you want to prepare the May worksheet for data.

In cell A2, change April to May. Select the ranges A5:D13 and F5:G13 and clear cell contents but keep the formatting In cell F5, type 1. In cell G5, type 1. Copy the values to the range F6:G13.

The property listings dataset is small. To improve readability on the printed copy for the other real estate agents, you will increase the scaling.

Select both worksheets and apply 120% scaling.

You want to apply page setup options to both sheets, so you need to group the sheets first.

Select both worksheets. Select Landscape orientation. Center the page horizontally and vertically between the margins.

With both worksheets still selected, insert a footer with the text Exploring Series on the left side, the sheet name code in the center, and the file name code on the right side.

Save and close Exp22_Excel_Ch01_ML2_Sales.xlsx. Exit Excel. Submit the file as directed.