You will compare two competing companies. The instructions are listed below. You will hypothetically work for company A. you will need to use my schools search engines to complete this. Directions: Career Report Will Help You Inform with Clarity and Intent How you earn points Part One: Analysis of Two Competitors, Response to items 1-3. ……. 50 points Part Two: Analysis of Audience, Outline, 1.5-page memo to boss ….. 100 points The rubrics are published in the Assessments/Assignment Folder and in the Content/Assignment Resources Cabinet in iCollege Dropbox. CAREER REPORT OVERVIEW You will explore the pros and cons of pursuing your desired career at two competing companies. You will pretend to work as an entry-level employee at Company A. In part one, you will use the Part One Career Report Company Analysis form to guide you through the comparison. At the end of the research, you will write a three-paragraph response answering three items about your research. Specific requirements are on the form. In part two, you will write a 1.5-page memo to your boss that provides information he/she requested. The boss wants to know which firm is attracting the best talent to fill the position you hold, and why? Compare the two companies and draw a conclusion about which firm is best for prospective employees like you. Use the Part Two Career Report Memo Analysis form to guide you through the steps. KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS The skills learned during this assignment will help you to: • Research companies effectively • Tailor messages to a particular audience • Demonstrate effective Q&A technique • Synthesize information into a concise, useful summary. • Demonstrate concise, grammatically correct writing skills • Practice the format and writing style used in business DELIVERABLES 1. Upload the Part One Career Report Company Analysis form to the iCollege assignment folder. You must rename the file by inserting your last name at the beginning of the file name. This form has your analysis of two competitors AND the message to the instructor. 2. Upload the Part Two Career Report Company Analysis form to the iCollege assignment folder. You must rename the file by inserting your last name at the beginning of the file name. This form has your analysis of two competitors AND the message to the instructor.

MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics

Guidelines for referring to the works of others in your text using MLA style are covered throughout the MLA Handbook and in chapter 7 of the MLA Style Manual. Both books provide extensive examples, so it’s a good idea to consult them if you want to become even more familiar with MLA guidelines or if you have a particular reference question.

BASIC IN-TEXT CITATION RULES

In MLA Style, referring to the works of others in your text is done using parenthetical citations. This method involves providing relevant source information in parentheses whenever a sentence uses a quotation or paraphrase. Usually, the simplest way to do this is to put all of the source information in parentheses at the end of the sentence (i.e., just before the period). However, as the examples below will illustrate, there are situations where it makes sense to put the parenthetical elsewhere in the sentence, or even to leave information out.

General Guidelines

• The source information required in a parenthetical citation depends (1) upon the source medium (e.g. print, web, DVD) and (2) upon the source’s entry on the Works Cited page.
• Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry on the Works Cited page.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS: AUTHOR-PAGE STYLE

MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author’s last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author’s name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example:

Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (263).

Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263).

Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth, they would find the following information:

Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. Oxford UP, 1967.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS FOR PRINT SOURCES WITH KNOWN AUTHOR

For print sources like books, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and newspapers, provide a signal word or phrase (usually the author’s last name) and a page number. If you provide the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need to include it in the parenthetical citation.

Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as “symbol-using animals” (3).

Human beings have been described as “symbol-using animals” (Burke 3).

These examples must correspond to an entry that begins with Burke, which will be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of an entry on the Works Cited page:

Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. University of California Press, 1966.