Author: chris

Take a character, or object, in the story called Rain Player and tell the story from their perspective.

I read a book called Rain Player in class and you were to take a character, or object, in the story and tell the story from their perspective. If you were there,remember the Book and took good enough notes to do the paper you, can do the RAFT and send it. It is to be two pages, typed, double spaced. If you can’t do it from Rain Player you may use any picture book and retell that story from any object’s position.

AND i asked the teacher how can i do it and he send me this
Go to any site where it explains RAFT, where they mean Role, Audience, Format and Topic and it should explain, along with what I have told you many times in person and on many emails.

do what the teacher want please

What is Competitive Position?

Hello, below are the instructions to this assignment. This is a very hard assignment and my professor is very strict. I have submitted a sample paper from a student who got an A last semester along with the first part of the assignment. You may use some of the information from assignment one (also submitted)
I am going to give you the log in information to the Strasim game which is basically what you will need to in order ti write my portion of this paper. I am part of a group of 3 and am responsible for 7 pages pages of this assignment covering the following:

MY PART:
• Competitive Position,
• Family Class
• Economy Class
• Truck Class
• Sports Class
• Executive Summary
• 7 pages total

Log in Information to the game:
First go to https://www.interpretive.com/rd6/index.php
log in using info provided above
download the game under “simulation access”
access the game and analyze our competitor and our performance.

THERE HAVE BEEN 8 PERIODS/CYCLES SO FAR AND EACH OF THEM HAVE TO BE ANALYZED AND COMPARED WITHIN WHAT I HAVE TO COVER:
• Competitive Position,
• Family Class
• Economy Class
• Truck Class
• Sports Class
• Executive Summary

*PLEASE DO NOT ENGAGE IN THIS PAPER IF INSTRUCTIONS ARENT UNDERSTOOD!!!
Please let me know if you do not understand the instructions. Please do not start paper until fulling understanding of instructions.

StratSim Assignment 2

The objective of this assignment is to define the current competitive position of your firm and identify the key strategic actions necessary for the firm to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. The presentation and written assignment should build on the team’s previous competitor and strategy analysis by accomplishing the following:
• Identify the current strategy of your firm and classify your firm’s resources and capabilities relative to your competitors (i.e., what is your firm’s current position on the competitive landscape).
• Identify how successful your firm has been over the course of the simulation relative to other firms in the industry along key results such as market share, overall sales, return to shareholders, ROS (Return on Sales), ROA (Return on Assets), etc. Evaluate the acceptability of these results.
• Recommend a set of strategic actions for your firm to achieve sustainable competitive advantage and project the results expected from these actions in terms of such key measures as market share, sales, ROA, ROS, etc. over the next 5 years.
• Identify the necessary strategic steps your firm will have to take in implementing your recommendations and identify anticipated obstacles or problems (i.e., what resources and capabilities does the firm need to develop or acquire, and what are the potential risks and uncertainties associated with your recommendations).

The written portion of this assignment should be between 20-25 pages, Times New Roman, 12 point font, double-spaced, 1-inch margins, and link the group’s competitor and strategic analysis completed earlier in the semester with a discussion of the above issues. It should include a cover page, a computer generated Table of Contents, an Executive Summary, and Appendices, which should be used to present data and analysis to support your conclusions and recommendations. None of these will be counted in the 20-25 pages. Tables and charts can be included in the Appendices and should be used whenever possible to summarize information. The report should be of the same quality that you would provide to the management of a business that you are dealing with directly. It should read as if one person wrote the entire document rather than a compilation of contributions from team members.

The presentation portion of this assignment is the vehicle through which each team will demonstrate the quality of its analysis, critical thinking, and strategic insights. Successful presentations will require:

• A professional presentation. An evaluation of content is strongly influenced by how well it is presented.
• A rigorous analysis of the information.
• The ability to identify and give shape to the conceptual issues.
• Distilling from the information and conceptual issues what is relevant and important.
• Creating specific recommendations for action.
• Framing the recommended actions in terms of the criteria by which it was made.
• Identifying the arguments for and against the recommended and the necessary steps the firm will have to make to achieve the desired results.

There is no right format for such a presentation. Part of your team’s task is to find a conceptual framework that allows the reviewers to share in your thought processes and simultaneously test your ideas. Each team will have 20 minutes to present. This time limit will be strictly enforced to allow time for some discussion after each presentation. Failure to complete the presentation in the allotted time will have a negative impact on your team’s presentation grade. Each team should be ready to present at their specified time to minimize the transition time between presentations.
Power Point slides are an acceptable means of conveying information during the presentation. The goal is to make the logic and flow of your arguments visually apparent. This means clear, credible, and convincing. Avoid slides that present spreadsheets that are full of small, unreadable numbers. Represent this type of information visually (i.e. graphs, pie charts, etc.) whenever possible.

Assess what you believe is still missing, and state how previous research has failed to examine the issue that your study addresses.

In general your proposal should include the following sections: I. Introduction In the real world of higher education, a research proposal is most often written by scholars seeking grant funding for a research project or it’s the first step in getting approval to write a doctoral dissertation. Even if this is just a course assignment, treat your introduction as the initial pitch of an idea. After reading the introduction, your readers should not only have an understanding of what you want to do, but they should also be able to sense your passion for the topic and be excited about the study’s possible outcomes. Think about your introduction as a narrative written in one to three paragraphs that succinctly answers the following four questions: What is the central research problem? What is the topic of study related to that problem? What methods should be used to analyze the research problem? Why is this important research, and why should someone reading the proposal care about the outcomes from the study? II. Background and Significance This section can be melded into your introduction or you can create a separate section to help with the organization and flow of your proposal. This is where you explain the context of your study proposal and outline why it’s important. Approach writing this section with the thought that you can’t assume your readers will know as much about the research problem as you do. Note that this section is not an essay going over everything you have learned about the research problem; instead, you must choose what is relevant to help explain the goals for your study. To that end, while there are no hard and fast rules, you should attempt to deal with some or all of the following: State the research problem and give a more detailed explaination about the purpose of the study than what you stated in the introduction. This is particularly important if the problem is complex or multifaceted. Present the rationale of your proposed study and clearly indicate why it is worth doing. Answer the “So What? question [i.e., why should anyone care]. Describe the major issues or problems to be addressed by your research. Explain how you plan to go about conducting your research. Clearly identify the key sources you intend to use and explain how they will contribute to your analysis of the topic. Set the boundaries of your proposed research in order to provide a clear focus. If necessary, provide definitions of key concepts or terms. III. Literature Review Connected to the background and significance of your study is a more deliberate review and synthesis of prior studies related to the research problem under investigation. The purpose here is to place your project within the larger whole of what is currently being explored, while demonstrating to your readers that your work is original and innovative. Think about what questions other researchers have asked, what methods they have used, and what is your understanding of their findings. Assess what you believe is still missing, and state how previous research has failed to examine the issue that your study addresses. Since a literature review is information dense, it is crucial that this section is intelligently structured to enable a reader to grasp the key arguments underpinning your study in relation to that of other researchers. A good strategy is to break the literature into “conceptual categories” [themes] rather than systematically describing groups of materials one at a time. To help frame your proposal’s literature review, here are the “five C’s” of writing a literature review: Cite: keep the primary focus on the literature pertinent to your research problem. Compare the various arguments, theories, methodologies, and findings expressed in the literature: what do the authors agree on? Who applies similar approaches to analyzing the research problem? Contrast the various arguments, themes, methodologies, approaches and controversies expressed in the literature: what are the major areas of disagreement, controversy, or debate? Critique the literature: Which arguments are more persuasive, and why? Which approaches, findings, methodologies seem most reliable, valid, or appropriate, and why? Pay attention to the verbs you use to describe what an author says/does [e.g., asserts, demonstrates, etc.]. Connect the literature to your own area of research and investigation: how does your own work draw upon, depart from, or synthesize what has been said in the literature? IV. Research Design and Methods This section must be well-written and logically organized because you are not actually doing the research. As a consequence, the reader will never have a study outcome from which to evaluate whether your methodological choices were the correct ones. The objective here is to convince the reader that your overall research design and methods of analysis will correctly address the research problem. Your design and methods should be unmistakably tied to the specific aims of your study. Describe the overall research design by building upon and drawing examples from your review of the literature. Be specific about the methodological approaches you plan to undertake to gather information, about the techniques you would use to analyze it, and about the tests of external validity to which you commit yourself [i.e., the trustworthiness by which you can generalize from your study to other people, places, or times]. When describing the methods you will use, be sure to cover these issues: Specify the research operations you will undertake and the way you will interpret the results of these operations in relation to your research problem. Don’t just describe what you intend to achieve from applying the methods you choose, but state how you will spend your time while applying these methods [e.g., coding text from interviews to find statements about changes to school curriculum]. Keep in mind that a methodology is not just a list of tasks; it is an argument as to why these tasks add up to the best way to investigate the research problem. This is an important point because the mere listing of tasks to be performed does not demonstrate that they add up to the best feasible approach. Be sure to anticipate and acknowledge any potential barriers and pitfalls in carrying out your research design and explain how you plan to address them. V. Preliminary Suppositions and Implications Just because you don’t have to actually conduct the study and analyze the results, this doesn’t mean that you can skip talking about the analytical process and potential implications. The purpose of this section is to argue how and in what ways you believe your research will refine, revise, or extend existing knowledge in the subject area under investigation. Depending on the aims and objectives of your study, describe how the anticipated results of your study will impact future scholarly research, theory, practice, forms of interventions, or policy. Note that such discussions may have either substantive [a potential new policy], theoretical [a potential new understanding], or methodological [a potential new way of analyzing] significance. When thinking about the potential implications of your study, ask the following questions: What might the results mean in regards to the theoretical framework that underpins the study? What suggestions for subsequent research could arise from the potential outcomes of the study? What will the results mean to practitioners in the natural settings of their workplace? Will the results influence programs, methods, and/or forms of intervention? How might the results contribute to the solution of social, economic, or other types of problems? Will the results influence policy decisions? In what way do individuals or groups benefit should your study be pursued? What will be improved or changed as a result of the proposed research? How will the results of the study be implemented, and what innovations will come about? VI. Conclusion The conclusion reiterates the importance or significance of your proposal and provides a brief summary of the entire study. This section should be only one or two paragraphs long, emphasizing why the research problem is worth investigating, why your research study is unique, and how it advances knowledge. Someone reading this section should come away with an understanding of: Why the study was done, The specific purpose of the study and the research questions it attempted to answer, The research design and methods used, The potential implications emerging from your proposed study of the research problem, and A sense of how your study fits within the broader scholarship about the research problem. VII. Citations As with any scholarly research paper, you must cite the sources you used in composing your proposal. In a standard research proposal, this section can take two forms, so consult with your professor about which one is preferred. References — lists only the literature that you actually used or cited in your proposal. Bibliography — lists everything you used or cited in your proposal with additional citations to any key sources relevant to understanding the research problem.