The question I have put into the attachment, please check! Then answer the questions. CLOSING CASE ACHIEVING A MORE BALANCED LIFE K. Some companies discourage the use of sick days. Nearly half of the full-time workers in America do not have paid sick days, and those who do have this benefit are often discouraged from using it.56 Most workers want to succeed and advance at work, yet they also want to schedule time for family, friends, and leisure activities. Many fail in their attempt to achieve this level of work/life balance. atherine Garrigan has worked full time at a Chicago museum for almost two years. During that time, the 24-year-old has taken just two short vacations totaling about eight days. 52 Jacqueline Piatt, a 26-year-old account executive at PJ, Inc., a New York-based public relations firm, described her upcoming trip to Barcelona: she plans to spend time at the beach, eat tapas, see the sights, and party until 5:00 a.m. Unfortunately, she has to squeeze it all into one weekend. Her work schedule does not allow for a longer vacation. 53 Many Americans have adopted a demanding work ethic that leaves little time for a well- rounded life. U.S. workers tend to work long hours and spend less time on vacation than do workers in many other industrialized countries. Long hours at work usually result in loss of leisure time and less time with family and friends. Con- sider these characteristics of the U.S. workforce: A full 35 percent of the employed workers are not taking all of their paid vacation days. Dur- ing one recent year, Americans failed to take 438 million days of paid vacation. McDonalds Corporation offers salaried employ- ees an eight-week paid sabbatical for every 10 years of employment. Sabbaticals, which origi- nated in academia, provide employees time for rest and reflection-a break from 50-hour work weeks. Yet, only 5 percent of American companies offer paid sabbaticals.55 QUESTIONS 1. Many workers do not use all of the paid vaca- tion time they have earned. Assess which factors may influence workers to make this decision. 2. Some companies feel vacation can have a positive effect on the personal health of their workers. They believe that workers asked to do more with fewer resources may need their vacation time more than ever. Argue whether employers should require workers to take all of their paid vacation days. Why or why not? 3. Several companies, including Accenture, Cisco Systems, and Wells Fargo, offer paid sabbaticals to employees so they can work as volunteers, improve their education, or learn new skills, for example. Evaluate the advan- tages and disadvantages of this approach to sabbaticals. Purchase answer to see full attachment Tags: Balanced Life vacation time job responsibilities employees experience workforce performance User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following our company’shonor code & terms of service.

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.