I’m studying for my Writing class and don’t understand how to answer this. Can you help me study?

Craft Group prompts should be discussion starters that explore some specific quote from The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction chapters assigned for this week. This is your chance to grapple with the notions that Moore and other writers suggest about writing in general or the flash nonfiction specifically. Think of craft as the deliberate choices writers make when creating their work. Be sure to

(1) introduce and include a quotation from the chapter, video, or podcast you’re discussing that exemplifies the craft element you want to explore.

(2) Tell us what you think about the quote, then

(3) ask an open-ended question that refers to it.

You’ll need all three elements to get full credit. These prompts should be ideas that get us started thinking and discussing. They should not be questions that can be answered with a fact or with a yes or no. Make sure you read all the prompts that have been submitted before yours. Do not repeat a prompt that someone has already submitted. This would be plagiarism.

Example: In The Rose Metal Press Field Guild to Writing Flash Nonfiction, Dinty Moore writes, “The brief essay, in other words, needs to be hot from the first sentence, and the heat must remain the entire time.” He goes on to explain that “the heat might come from language, from image, from voice or point-of-view, from revelation or suspense, but there must always be a burning urgency of some sort, translating through each sentence, starting with the first.” All this heat is a daunting imperative, but I think it’s important for writers to get adept at finding the heat of their ideas and stories in order to write engaging prose. Where do you find heat in Lia Purpura’s essay “Augury,” which we had to read for this week? Does the heat come from more than one source?

Assignment, recall the concepts or topics you selected as part of your Executive Summary in Part 1. It is now time to bring this commitment to life (starbucks). To do this, identify concrete action items that will support your goal to deepen your personal learning experience in the coming year. Then, consider the following:

• What can you do now to integrate the experiences and insights you had in the MBA program with your personal and professional development goals?
• What are the most important things you are taking from your MBA program that will shape your future and enable you to make a positive difference?
• You wrote an entry into your BPPG in the first course that asked you to reflect on what you might say if you were giving a commencement speech. Review that entry now. Would you change it? If so, go ahead and revise it!

Write your action plan:

Write a detailed action plan for one new goal for professional and personal development (you will continue to build on the list of goals you started in your previous course). Include the following in your action plan:

• Your specific goal for professional and personal development with an explanation as to why you selected the goal. Be sure to provide concrete and specific examples of why the goal is important, the extent to which this goal enables you to be an agent for positive social change, the personal or professional value you expect from achieving each goal, and how the goal relates to the resources you reviewed in the course.
• At least two objectives for the goal you have identified. Provide a rationale that explains how your objectives support the goal.

General Guidance on Assignment Length: Part 2B of Your BPPG, your reflection and action plan, will typically be 1 ½ to 2 single-spaced pages. Refer to the Week 5 Individual Reflection rubric for this assignment for specific grading elements and criteria. Your Instructor will use this rubric to assess your work.

Part One:  Answer ONE of the following:

1.     Discuss the Following aspects of the foundations of law and the court system:                       A. the definition of the law.    B. law and justice: why they do not necessarily equate.     C. Judicial self-restraint and judicial activism.   D. courts and the law – the three concentric circles: core institutions, gatekeepers, users.

2.     Discuss the following aspects of the organization of the judicial system:                               A. the differences between trial and appellate courts.  B. the presumption of innocence in criminal court procedure.  C. The organization of the federal courts.

3.     Discuss the following aspects of judging:  A. the work of a trial judge: umpiring a dispute, negotiating a settlement, drafting legal documents, counseling, administrating.                                             B. why do judges so often defer to other courtroom participants.

4.     Discuss the following aspects of judicial policy making:  A. the two basic theories of the law: the internal theory and the social theory.   B.  Judicial review.

Part Two: Answer ONE of the following:

1.      Discuss:   A. the work of lawyers: litigating, representing/lobbying, negotiating, drafting documents, counseling clients.  

 B. how interest groups employ lawyers to litigate over public policy.

2.     In regard to the courtroom setting in criminal cases discuss the following:                                                       A. police screening.  B. the prosecutor.  C. the exclusionary rule.  D. the funneling effect.  E. why case attrition occurs.  F. the judicial wedding cake.  G. the courtroom work group.

3.     In regard to the courtroom setting in civil trials discuss the following:                                                                A. the disputing pyramid: grievances, claiming, disputing a claim, hiring a lawyer, filing a lawsuit.  B. the significant role of the lawyer in civil cases:  intermediaries, gatekeepers, framing the case, dealing with client’s unrealistic expectations, law talk.  

4.     Discuss the following aspects of judicial decision making:  A. the two major factors that influence the decision making of a trial judge: rules and procedures of the legal system, political aspects of the legal environment.  B. the four major theories that help explain appellate court decision making.

5.     Discuss the following aspects of the Supreme Court:  A. mobilizing the law to reach the Supreme Court.  B. the doctrine of access.  C. case selection.

 Web Assignment

Using your favorite search engine, locate the websites for two research firms. Conduct a review of the services offered by these two different research firms. What types of tools do they use, and how effective are those tools? Then, write an essay responding to the following questions/topics, evaluating each research firm’s capability of providing valuable services to its customers.

1. Contrast the services and tools provided by the two research firms.

2. Explain the advantages of utilizing these research firms.

3. Discuss why a company might decide to save the money and utilize its in-house team as opposed to one of these firms.

4. Explain how the tools discussed in the lecture might enable more companies to complete their research internally. Your APA-formatted submission must be a minimum of three pages (not including the title page and the reference page). References must include the two websites and a minimum of one additional credible reference. All sources used must be referenced. Paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.