This application assignment requires you to share a newsworthy story  OR  a workplace experience that demonstrates how  one course concept from  Module 1 has been used in practice.  The concept that you select may come from the readings , audio lectures, and/or required videos.   

News Story Option (if chosen):  

• News story must be from a credible source within the last 4 years with appropriate citation.
  
• Context must be provided on why the story is immediately relevant to the topics being covered.
  
• Responses which are purely opinion and anecdotal are not considered to be substantive in nature.
  
• Two external sources to support information required In addition to the news story from a credible source.
  
• Original news story from an external source plus two additional external sources required.
  
• Assigned textbook chapters from the course  do not count as external sources.

Workplace Experience Option (if chosen):

• DO NOT SHARE CONFIDENTIAL OR PROPRIETARY INFORMATION with the class If you decide to introduce a workplace scenario that you have dealt with or are dealing with at present.
  
• Use discretion when sharing work-related information.  Use aliases instead of real names to maintain privacy.
  
• Two external sources required to support your information in addition to workplace experience.
  
• Workplace experience plus two external sources required.
  
• Assigned textbook chapters from the course  do not count as external sources.

Assignment Structure:

• The title of application assignment and first sentence of assignment  must indicate courseconcept from Module 1.
• First part of application assignment must provide  only a  brief  summary of your news story/workplace experience to frame your discussion so that what you are discussing is clear but is not the majority of the post. 
  
• Remainder of application assignment and the primary focus of it is not describing your news story/workplace experience in great detail but rather  meeting the relevant criteria outlined in the application assignment rubric  using your news story/workplace experience as the context.

Application Assignment Submission:

Submit your application assignment as a Microsoft Wordfile via the submission box that says "Add submission". 

Turnitin Requirements:

• For each application assignment, your similarity score must meet a threshold of  no more than 20%.
  
• Assignments with greater than 20% similarity  must be revised and resubmitted to Turnitin until the 20% threshold is achieved.
  
• For resubmissions, it may take up to  24 hours for a new similarity score.
  
• Assignments with more than 20% threshold will be notaccepted.