APA vs MLA

One difference between MLA and APA is in-text citations, in MLA you put the page number you found the information on after the authors name and in APA you put the year it was published. In MLA you block quotes that are 4 lines or longer, and in APA you block quotes that are 40 or more words. In MLA you title the page of your sources at the end “works cited” and in APA it is titled “references”. MLA doesn’t use commas or pp. to separate information like page numbers but APA does.

            One similarity is that they both use parenthesis to cite sources in the body of a paper. Citations in the “works cited” or “references” page are listed in alphabetical order. Both styles are supposed to be double spaced

Qatar World Cup 2022

Should the 2022 World Cup be held in the summer?
The weather in Qatar during the summer will be too hot for the World Cup to run smoothly. Cooling technology for the stadiums has been proposed, which would help players and spectators remain comfortable and safe while the matches are being played, but a large part of the tournament is not on the pitch. It is a major tourist attraction, and spectators for the event will spend a large amount of their time outside of the stadium. The average temperature in Qatar during the summer can be over 100 degrees, which is not ideal for anyone visiting the country. With the World Cup being such a costly event, tourist revenue is needed to help balance out the cost of staging this event. A lot of football federations in Europe are angry that it will disrupt their domestic club schedules, but it is the World Cup. This event is 7 years in the future, which provides plenty of time to find a solution to the scheduling problems that a world cup not during the summer could propose. This is the most viewed sporting event in the world, making changes to domestic league schedules for one season is not that big of a deal to make room for the worlds biggest sporting event to be hosted and carried out efficiently. Having this tournament at a time where technology isn't needed to cool stadiums can also save Qatar a lot of money.

Reviews of Scholarly Literature

In the article, Johnson cites 8 different sources. Her sources seem credible because they sound intelligent and believable like whatever she is citing actually seems like they know what they are talking about. They also seem to come from pretty credible places such as books and national organizations. She combines her sources with her own work by stating her own information and using the sources to back up her information and add some details to some things in some instances.

Reflection On First Major Assignment

For my first major assignment I had to write an informational report discussing writing in the field that I am studying at school. From this assignment I learned many things about the business field. First of all I learned about a position at a bank that I never knew existed from interviewing someone to discuss writing for their career. I also learned about the different forms of writing that are done by business professionals, why they write them, and how. I learned how important writing is in this field and this was my first time looking at a scholarly journal for business writing. One assumption I had about writing in business was that it is short and to the point. While the “to the point” aspect remained true about writing, the short did not, especially with academic writing for scholarly journals. They were a lot lengthier than any business writing I had ever seen and was expecting.

            One of the challenges in the process of writing this assignment was finding good examples of business writing in the field because some of these types of writings aren’t published, so they aren’t easy to find, such as a business letter. Business letters are generally written to another company or person, so they aren’t accessible to the public for everyone to read, so I couldn’t really use an example from one, even though they are a big part of writing in the field. I ended up using works that were published from business professionals to provide examples, and inserted some information that I received on business letters from my interviews I conducted. As a writer, I learned that I can present the information I want to well, but organizing it in the most productive way is an issue. I also need to work on introducing and concluding my papers more sufficiently.

            I didn’t get to experience the group conference because my partner had the time mixed up, but I thought the individual conference was very helpful and would like to have an individual conference on the next major assignment. I think having a peer read your paper and provide in depth feedback on the blog is helpful, but when it comes to the actual conference I believe individual ones would be more beneficial.

Organ sales will save lives

In this article she clearly states her opinion on the topic which is that organ sales should be legal. She then backs up up this witch the reasons that donors need the money, altruism is not enough, regulating organ sales would lead to better decisions, and how to make it fair for sellers and buyers. To organize the paper she first stated her thesis, provided some background info on the topic, and then stated her reasons and the counter arguments of that reason after each one.

Informational Report First Draft

Writing in Business

            Writing is important in any field of work that you plan to do, and is unique to each profession and career, whether it is biology, engineering, or in this case, business. There are many different careers a business person can have with many different types of writing involved, but most business writing all share one thing; they are very precise and do the point without much extra “beautiful writing”. Writing in business is not to entertain, but to get the point across as effectively and quickly as possible.

            To help further my understanding of writing in the business field, I interviewed the assistant vice president of deposit operations at a bank.  The main things she has to write are levies, garnishments, and denied deposit slips. The frequency depends on when these things are needed, it could be daily, or biweekly. Levies and garnishments are written to customers who owe money to the state but wont pay, so she has to write to them to inform them their assets are frozen and being paid to the state. She writes denied deposit slips when a check that a customer tried to deposit bounced. All of these things are formal writing that are done and must be professional. Some informal writing she does are emails to coworkers, or notes taken during meetings. One example she gave me was taking notes at a meeting about a new banking app where checks could be deposited with a picture, and she wrote down notes on the directions and how to use the app.

           

            To get a broader range of information on the subject I also interviewed my Economics professor. As a college professor, most of his writing now a days is informal, such as notes, lessons plans, power points, or emails to other professors or his students. At one point he did work for the government as an economic advisor, and in this position formal writing was very important to his profession. One of the most important formal writings to his position were business letters he would have to write to present ideas or contact other professionals in the field.  According to him this wasn’t a type of writing that was done daily, but whenever it was needed, usually weekly. The informal writing usually occurs at least once a day now as a professor because of all the things he has to deal with.

            All business professionals write multiple different types of writing, some more formal than others. All types of writings are part of the job, notes, or even articles written for newspapers or magazines. These are all considered informal forms of writing and wouldn’t be used to conduct formal business. For instance, a Business professor at the University of Michigan by the name of Justin Wolfers has written an article that was published in the New York Times. This article is written to share information but also is more opinionated than most of the formal writing this is done in business. “That is, so far all of the gains of the recovery have gone to the top 1 percent. By contrast, this group suffered only one-third of the income declines during the preceding recession.” (Wolfers 2015) The language of the piece is written to where the reader does not have to be extremely educated in the field to comprehend the information. Another example of this is from another article written for the New York Times by author Tabuchi (2015), “McDonald’s announced on Wednesday that its chief executive would step down, just days after the fast-food restaurant chain posted one of its worst financial performances in years.” This is a quote from a business article explaining the financial side of McDonald’s changes in positions to people that may not be very educated in the field, is relatively short in length, and is easily understood. 

In contrast to an article produced in a newspaper, there is more formal writing done which can require a lot of knowledge on the subject to understand. For example, this quote taken from a business journal, “Where: y - (yi,y2, - ,yp) is a (p * 1) vector of several indicator variables. À is the vector of regression coefficients, and [varepsilon]' is a (p * 1) vector of white noise disturbances.” (Vo, Duc Hong; Ly, Thinh Hung 2014, p.139-148) Without prior business knowledge and extensive education in the field, this will make very little sense to someone. The length in the pieces are also very different, with the article in the New York times being a few paragraphs and the article in the business journal having multiple sub heading and being four or five times as long. Here is another example from an article in a scholarly journal written by Leonidour and Barnes (2010), “In light of the above, the purpose of this study is a comprehensive assessment of all international marketing articles published in the leading mainstream marketing journals during the period 1975-2004[4].” This article was written with extensive research and time and is very lengthy to provide an in depth analysis to the study there are conducting, unlike the non-academic newspaper articles that were written to give the general business interested public some background information.

            Just like every career or profession in this world, there are certain things that make business writing unique. There are many different types of writing that can be used in the business world that all serve different purposes. Even in a business, different positions will have to write different things than someone in a different position than them. One thing most business writings all have in common though, is that they are usually short, and to the point.