COMU 315: Intercultural Communication — rev for 2020 Civic Engagement Signature Assignment Week 8 (80 pts.) This Civic Engagement signature writing assignment fulfills the Institutional Learning Outcome 3, Civic Engagement: Describe insights gained from engaging physically and/or intellectually with activities of personal and public concern that are both individually life enriching and socially beneficial to the community. Instructions: Part 1: Prospectus In a minimum of 750 words, write a prospectus and addendum (Parts 1 and 2) for an initiative for your community that would address an issue raised in this course that touched your compassion or anger. For context, a prospectus is “a preliminary printed statement that describes an enterprise (such as a business or social service enterprise) that is distributed to prospective funding sources or other interested parties.’ Include the following categories: • The Call: Include a pitch, how you would persuade the audience or reader. • The Need: The need should respond to your observations in your community. Include evidence of need, and reference this evidence as well as you can. • The Response: Describe how your organization will respond to the need. • The Ask: In some detail explain the action that you wish for your audience or reader to take. • Contact information: Include contact information needed to take the next step. Assessment Office Version Part 2: Addendum (submit in the same document as the prospectus) • Write an explanation that justifies why you chose this project to address a need in your community. • Reflect on insights you gained from this community engagement. Other considerations: If you were going to use this product for your community work, you would also include a budget and a rendering or other related material as seen in the Portland Affordable Housing example. It is not necessary for this assignment, but you may include as you see fit. Your submitted prospectus should look a lot like the exemplar from the Portsmouth Union-Disciples of Christ Church’s prospectus for lowincome housing to be constructed on its property in Portland, Oregon. Click here to view the church’s sample prospectus. Please use the format on the first page of this example. Your prospectus should be a functional document that you or the organization might actually use. Graphics are welcome but not required. Here is a second prospectus example from ‘Strong Women — Strong Girls’ out of Boston-https://www.socialinnovationforum.org/sites/default/files/Strong-Women-Strong-Girls-2007-Prospectus.pdf . Yours certainly does not need to be this extensive. SPECIAL NOTE: If you are already or were involved in or know of some local activities like this one, you can use it for this assignment as long as it fits with the objectives of ‘civic engagement’ as defined above. Also here’s a ‘think’ list of community service projects that you might want to consider — https://blog.prepscholar.com/129-examples-of-community-service-projects . Assessment Office Version Purchase answer to see full attachment Explanation & Answer: 750 Words Tags: natural resources drinking water Insects and rodents 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.