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Case Analysis Guidelines & Checklist
Overview: In many ways writing a short analysis paper (including recommendations and/or conclusions) is like writing an “action memo” or executive memo in business. The following sections go over how to organize and format your written work here in class and in the business world to be attractive to the reader and effective in getting your point across.
Approach: * Read the entire case carefully before you actually begin to write the paper, and make careful notes
(including your emotional reactions, which can be useful). Try to read the case once at least a few hours or a day earlier, and then again when you are writing the paper. This
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* (Optional). You may decide to add a final titled conclusion section of 25-100 words, including any parting thoughts you would like to add about the topic, the organization, or the situation, and any lessons from it you want to note.
Format and Style:
Boston University emphasizes standards of effective oral and written business communication, because these skills are important to your career success. Therefore you are expected to follow the requirements of good business writing and the specific requirements of the course. Failure to follow these rules (e.g. papers over length, excessive misspellings, incorrect citations, etc.) will result in papers being downgraded. Likewise follow Boston University’s rules on plagiarism and academic conduct.
Specific requirements * Papers should be organized into paragraphs, written in complete sentences, and broken into clearly titled sections as per the outline above. Note that generally shorter rather than longer paragraphs make for better communication, and that it is better to have “too many” titled sections than too few. * Use correct spelling and grammar. You should use a spell-checking program on your computer, and * personally proof-read your papers. If English is a second language for you, ask an English speaking friend to check your writing and grammar for you. Remember to set the language of Word to English (U.S.) through the Menu. Also make sure you have
4. It has a topic sentence that explains what the paragraph is going to be about, evidence and commentary supporting the ideas, and a concluding sentence closing up the paragraph.
After having a very successful performance and getting second place on the first Littlefield simulation game we knew what we needed to do to win the second simulation game. We were very eager to outperform our competition and we almost did so, but ended up in second place again with a cash balance of $2,660,393.
Begin your paper with an appropriate introduction, including a thesis statement to introduce the purpose of the paper.
Choose one of the following topics to address in your paper. Be sure to use specific reasons/examples to support your point. Colorize your rough draft.
1. For the year-end December 31, 2007, financial statements, what amount should M record as a liability?
1. The following video will show you how to write the body of the paper:
Second, the manufacturing order costs for non-stocked items was calculated by dividing total manufacturing order costs for non-stocked items by the number of orders for non-stocked products. Non-stocked products have additional costs associated with processing orders that went above and beyond the costs associated with a stocked product. The third step involved determining what the S"A allocation factor would be for calculating the S"A volume related costs. This allocation factor would then be applied to manufacturing COGS. The fourth and final step involved the calculation of the operating profit based on backing out volume related costs from sales revenues followed by deducting S"A and manufacturing order costs from the resulting gross margin to arrive at a operating profit.
Your paper should be organized around a thesis statement that clarifies what you will attempt to accomplish in your paper, and how you will proceed. Additionally, you must conclude with a restatement of the thesis and a conclusion paragraph.
4. Using the Appendix from Ch. 1 of Contemporary Criminal Law as a resource, explain the citations for each of the following cases:
3. The paper must end with a short paragraph that states a conclusion. The conclusion and thesis must be consistent.
Use the space below to compose a journal of 250-500 words on nationalism by answering the following:
I know, I am supposed to write my assignment for one article. I did try to write on one but you will see the traces of both articles in this assignment. After a long thought and couple of drafts (bullet points), I chose to write on “Security Concerns in Popular Cloud Storage Services”. Authors of the paper listed out the security weaknesses of the three popular data sharing services. They also suggested some countermeasures as well to mitigate these vulnerabilities. While this paper lists some countermeasures for the cloud service providers, reading this paper will also help end users to determine what to store and what not to store on these popular services. And also the care to be taken while