AimThe purpose of the phase 1 report is to find a medical condition for which you want to conduct data analyses and to have a basic understanding of the medical condition, such as the background, causes of the disease, treatments, status, and influential factors. You need data to conduct data analyses. Therefore, you need to find a dataset with which you can conduct your project. I strongly encourage you to use the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data in this class, while I provide a list of potential datasets below. It should be noted that I will provide sample codes only for the MEPS data. For the data analysis, you should have at least 500 data instances. Therefore, please find a medical condition of interest and then check whether there are 500 data instances. More details will be explained below.DatasetMEPS is a set of large-scale surveys of families and individuals, their medical providers, and employers across the United States. MEPS is a complete source of data on the cost and use of health care and health insurance coverage in the US. For more details, please visit the official website (Links to an external site.) and Github repository (Links to an external site.) and read the attached appendix document Download attached appendix document(p.1 – 13). MEPS data consists of various variables such as medical condition, socioeconomic factors (e.g., gender, region, race, and family income), and medical expenditure. MEPS data also consist of various files such as person-level (e.g., health status, demographics, and total $$ of care), event-level (e.g., healthcare service use), and condition-level (e.g., medical condition). For the full review of those variables, please look at codebooks (person-level (Links to an external site.)) and condition-level (Links to an external site.)). I also coded those variables regarding usefulness for analysis (included vs. excluded, Heejun_Inclusion field) and variable type (independent vs. dependent, Heejun_Variable_Type field). You can find my version of the codebook from this link (Links to an external site.). In particular there are some dependent variables you can utilize:Total health expendituresTotal inpatient expendituresTotal emergency care expendituresSeverity of Illness (attacks/year)Number of School Days Missed (Children)Number of Work Days Missed (Adult)You should explore the dataset in depth to understand what you can do and to decide what you will do. It is a complex dataset, and you need to merge a number of files into one for your project. Do not feel overwhelmed. I will introduce all procedures step by step. Depending on the medical condition (e.g., allergic rhinitis), research goals you can set will include but are not limited to:Predict the yearly medical expenditure of persons with allergic rhinitisCompare healthcare costs in different social determinant factors (e.g., sex, region, family income, and race)Find relationships between allergic rhinitis and environmental factorsIf you are skilled in Python and want to use other datasets, then it is up to your group. However, please be noted that I cannot fully support your group, and my sample codes should be tweaked a lot to reflect the difference between the dataset you choose and the MEPS dataset. The following datasets are publicly available and free:National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (Links to an external site.)Early Childhood Longitudinal Studies Program (Links to an external site.)Add Health (Links to an external site.)FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) (Links to an external site.) What to Do for the Phase 1 ReportPlease find a medical condition that interests your group and find an ICD-9 code of the condition from the FINDACODE.COM (Links to an external site.)If your group decides to use the MEPS data, go to #3. If not, go to #5Download a condition-level file (h128.csv Download h128.csv), open the file with MS Excel, and apply a filter to the “ICD9CODX” field. Select the ICD-9 code of your condition (e.g., 493 for asthma) and check the number of records (i.e., number of rows selected) related to your condition. This number would include duplicated recordsTo remove duplicated records and count the number of unique records, Select the “DUPERSID” field and copy all selected DUPERSIDs. While copying, you should copy visible cells only. If not, you are going to copy all DUPERSIDs in the column. To copy “visible cells only”, please follow the instruction found at the Microsoft Support (Links to an external site.)The DUPERSID uniquely identifies each person represented on the file. In other words, DUPERSID is a sample person identifierThen, paste copied DUPERSIDs to another sheet (+ menu in the bottom)Remove duplicates (“Data” -> “Remove Duplicates”) and count the number of records (i.e., DUPERSIDs). If the number of DUPERSIDs is larger than 500, you are good. Congratulations! Your medical condition meets the requirement of the project. If not, you do not have enough data for the project. Unfortunately, you need to find another medical condition and iterate the steps from 3 to 4.D until you can find a condition with more than 500 recordsIf you selected another dataset, it’s your responsibility to conduct steps from 3 to 4.D by yourself. Your workflow should do the same procedures as my suggested workflow doesHow to writePlease write a report in 600-800 (12 point font, double-spaced) words and cite appropriately. You need to have references to introduce the background of your condition. In-text citations and the list of references should follow APA 7th edition style. The report should consist of 4 to 5 paragraphs: introduction, two or three paragraphs of the main body, and conclusion. The topics can include but are not limited to background, causes of the disease, treatments, status, influential factors, and a particular reason of your interest. What to includeYour submission of the report should include:Names of students in your project group (up to three students)EUIDs of group membersTitle of the projectMedical conditionData sourceNumber of data recordsWhat I asked you in the “How to Write”The order of contributions (i.e., work distribution) like authorship (e.g., first author, second author, third author, and so on.)If you believe that some of you or all of you contributed equally, then you need to state itHere, contributions include all phases you worked to submit this project reportPlease attach a .docx file. All group members should submit the same copy of the report.Grading CriteriaYour reports will be evaluated on both the quality and quantity of entries. By quality, I do not mean mechanics (e.g., spelling, grammar), but rather content. Your entries should demonstrate reflective and critical thinking, integration of materials and experiences, development of your own research questions, and general intellectual growth. As to length or quantity, 600-800 words as well as 4 to 5 paragraphs are required. The list of references will not be included in the word count.PreviousNext

SQL Assignment 1Purpose: To provide you an opportunity to apply (SQL) in the data processing cycle.Database : Northwind_original (on Canvas)Tools: SQLiteStudio (See Instruction for Downloading SQLiteStudio on Canvas). undefinedBefore starting the assignment, install SQLiteStudio on your computer and download the above database in your computer. To be submitted:Submit each SQL assignment in ONE file. The file should include everything required to be submitted for that assignment.SQL query statements (21 statements)Screenshots of partial output for questions that require screenshots of output (total 4 screenshots, 8 points). I also recommend copying and pasting your SQL statements into a word or notepad file and saving the file in multiple places (e.g., on a computer, email, cloud, external hard drive, etc.).If you have already experienced losing your hard work at some point then you know how important having a backup is…at all times.Note that you should execute (run) the query for each question only once and do not need to store your queries in SQLiteStudio.undefinedTo complete these exercises, you need to consult the textbook (chapter 4) and online help https://www.w3schools.com/sql/.Keywords are included in the assignment to help you locate the related online help for each exercise.When the questions for this assignment do not specify which rows to show in the results, assume that all rows should be shown.Similarly, when the questions do not specify which columns to show in the results, assume that all columns should be shown.When the questions specify that only certain columns should be included in the results, this does not imply that other columns cannot be used in the query (they should simply not be part of the output).SQL #1 QuestionSelect specific rows: ALIASES and CASE.Create new columns (fields) in the results.Create VIEWS. GROUP and AGGREGATE (e.g., COUNT, AVG, SUM):1-Select all data in a table:-Use the OrderDetails table and create a query that displays all the data in this table.2-Select specific columns: -Use the OrderDetails table and create a query that displays ProductID and Quantity only.3-Select specific rows:3.1) WHERE. Use the OrderDetails table and create a query that displays order line items: a) with OrderID 10251. b) that are not for product 38. c) with unit prices more than $50 and quantity more than 25. d) with quantity more than 100 or unit price more than 200. 3.2) WHERE. Use the OrderHeaders table and create a query that displays all orders (rows): a) placed in 2019 (you can assume that there is no later orders). b) that were shipped after they were required. c) that have not yet been shipped (Hint: statement “shipped date is null”).3.3) DISTINCT.Use the OrderDetails table and create a query that displays: a) all unique products sold (only show Product IDs in the results). b) all unique products sold with a unit price of more than $50.3.4) ORDER BY. Use the products table and create a query that shows: a) products sorted by UnitsInStock in descending order.3.5) LIKE and WILDCARDS.Use the Customers table and create a query that shows all customers with: a) “manager” in the ContactTitle. b) company names that start with F. 4-ALIASES and CASE.Create new columns (fields) in the results.Note that aliases are temporary…and not stored for reuse in a query.a) Use the Products table and create a query that shows Product Name, Units In Stock, Units On Order, Reorder Level, and a calculated field named Units Available defined as Units In Stock + Units On Order. b) Use the Products table and create a query that shows Product Name, Units In Stock, Units On Order, Reorder Level, the calculated field Units Available (copy and paste the query you created in 4a), and a new calculated field named Reorder Needed that displays “Yes” if UnitsAvailable < ReorderLevel and otherwise “No”. 5- Create VIEWS. Note that views are virtual tables.If you need to troubleshoot a view at some point you can simply delete it and recreate it. a)Copy and paste the query in 4a and create a view called ProductAvailability based on this query. b.Using the ProductAvailability view that you created in 5a, create a query that only shows products that need to be ordered (that have UnitsAvailable less than the ReorderLevel).6-GROUP and AGGREGATE (e.g., COUNT, AVG, SUM):a) Using the Products table, create a query that shows for each supplier:the SupplierID and the number of products associated with the supplier (name this field NumberOfItems). b) Using the OrderDetails table, create a query that shows for each order the OrderID and the total quantity sold (name this field TotalQuantity).c) Using the OrderDetails table show for each product:(i) the ProductID, (ii) the average sales unit price (name this field AverageUnitPrice; you can simply calculate the average for each product across the different order detail rows and you do not need to adjust the average for the quantity sold in each order), (iii) the total quantity sold (name this field SumOfQuantitySold), and (iv) the number of times it has been sold (name this field NumberOfSales; you can simply calculate the number of sales orders). 7-INNER JOIN:a) Using the OrderHeaders and OrderDetails tables, show OrderID, OrderDate (from the OrderHeaders table), ProductID, and Quantity (from the orderdetails). You can assume that all OrderHeaders have OrderDetails and that all OrderDetails have OrderHeaders. b) Copy and paste query 1.a and only show orders placed in 2019. 8-INNER JOIN, WHERE, GROUP, and HAVING: a) Copy and paste query 1.b, but only show one record for each ProductID. For each product show a new calculated field named SumOfQuantitySoldIn2019 defined as the total quantity sold in 2019. Store this query as a view called ProductSales2019. b) Copy and paste query 1.b, but only show products with SumOfQuantitySoldIn2019 greater than 100. c) Create the same output you did in 2.b, but use the ProductSales2019 view (that you created in 2.a) instead of the OrderHeaders and OrderDetails tables.9- LEFT JOIN (same as LEFT OUTER JOIN):a) Using the Products table and ProductSales2019 view, show for all products, the quantity sold in 2019.Display the (i) ProductID and (ii) ProductName for all products in the Products table, and (iii) SumOfQuantitySoldIn2019 (include null values for products not sold in 2019). 10-INNER JOINS: Join three tablesUsing the OrderDetails, OrderHeaders, and Products tables, determine for each product the average price received in 2019 and compare this amount to the list price (the unit price in the Products table).In your output display (i) ProductID, (ii) AveragePriceReceived (i.e., average sales unit price in 2019 for each product where sales unit price is UnitPrice*(1-Discount) from the OrderDetails table), (iii) UnitPrice from the products table, and (iv) a new calculated field that calculates the percentage difference between AveragePriceReceived and the UnitPrice in the products table.Name this field PercentPriceDifference.

Differentiate between the terms Stress, anxiety, and arousal. Describe how you could use Progressive Muscle Relaxation and Systematic Desensitization to assist an individual’s learning and performance. In your description, apply the terms detachment, learned helplessness, Composure, and explain how these concepts are relevant to this discussion.

Energy Control
Audio PowerPoint introduction to key Module 2 information
Students, as we continue through the Education Phase of psychological Skills Training, this week our focus is on the energy issues of an athlete’s performance, that is, helping athletes and other performers overcome challenges with stress, anxiety, and arousal. Review the top right of our Systematic Achievement Motivation Model. Remember, Personality Information:
all experiences during life, including early experiences in, will influence the expression of:

anxiety,
detachment
Composure
Learned helplessness

You are the essence of your reactions and your responses.
We will review these concepts, but more importantly, we will look at strategies to help individuals reduce their effects.

“We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives.” Lewis Thomas

When creating a program that helps athletes, we need to be able to differentiate between Arousal, Anxiety and Stress.

Arousal is a blend of psychological and psychological activation, varying in intensity along a continuum (Weinberg & Gould, 2015).
Anxiety is a negative emotional state with feelings of worry, nervousness, and apprehension associated with activation or arousal of the body (Weinberg & Gould, 2015).
Stress is a substantial imbalance between physical and psychological demands placed on an individual and his or her response capability under conditions in which failure to meet demands has important consequences (Weinberg & Gould, 2015).

Now we are ready to apply this information to a learning and performance situation.

First, an environmental demand happens. This could be a bear runs out in front of you, or in my world, an alligator “trots” out onto the green. In the world of sport, It could be coming to bat with runners in scoring position, maybe in the last inning, and the score is tied or behind by one run. These examples all represent possible demands placed on an individual.
Second, the individual’s perception of these demands, including the threat perceived. A bear or alligator is a serious threat over which normal, self-controlled people would experience great stress. If this same level of stress and anxiety is felt by our batter, you can see this could be a performance problem.
Third, a stress response happens. Arousal increases, muscle tension increases, state anxiety kicks in, and corresponding attentional focus issues result.
Lastly, there are behavioral consequences. Does the level of stress and anxiety prevent attending to the important environmental information, processing this information, and selecting the best movement choice?
Individuals differ in their response to stress. The category of responses includes: affective, behavioral, physiological, and cognitive. Each category has its own unique signs and symptoms. In the Affective category, anger, anxiety, depression, shame and feeling sorry for oneself are frequent examples. Behavioral signs and symptoms often include, restlessness, aggression and sleeping disturbances, drug and possible skipping practice. The physiological symptoms include muscle tension, increased heart rate, indigestion, and headaches. Lastly, Cognitive symptoms are worry, exaggeration, and unrealistic expectations

“Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.” Christian Nevell Bovee
Drive Theory and Inverted U-hypothesis
Drive Theory
As arousal or activation increases, there will be a corresponding increase in performance
Inverted U-hypothesis
As arousal increase, so too will performance, but point to a point. If the athlete experiences too much arousal, their performance will decrease. Essentially, there is an “optimal” level of arousal. This optimal level of arousal depends on the individual, situation, ability, and type of skill.

“I’ve failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” Michael Jordan
According to Weinberg and Gould………

Arousal and state anxiety do not always have negative effects on performance.
They can be facilitative or debilitative depending on the interpretation. Self-confidence and enhanced perceptions of control are critical to perceiving anxiety as facilitative.
Some optimal level of arousal leads to peak performance, but optimal levels of physiological activation and arousal-related thoughts (worry) are not the same.
Interaction of physiological activation and arousal interpretation is more important than actual levels of each.
It is doubtful that the optimal level of arousal is always at the midpoint of the arousal scale.
“Psyching-up” strategies should be employed with caution because it is difficult to recover from a catastrophe.
Athletes should have well-practiced self-talk, imagery, and goal-setting skills for coping with anxiety (Weinberg & Gould, 2007, pp.92-93).

“If you feel anxiety or depression, you are not in the present. You are either anxiously projecting the future or depressed and stuck in the past. The only thing you have any control over is the present moment; simple breathing exercises can make us calm and present instantly.”
Tobe Hanson

Tools for Coping and Techniques for Increasing Intensity
Tools for coping and techniques for increasing intensity include:
Progressive muscle relaxation
Strategies to help release and control tension, breath control, bio-feedback, stress inoculation training.
Systematic desensitization
Assist in overcoming stress and anxiety, stress reduction techniques to help overcome anxiety producing situations and/or events.
Hypnosis
A technique for placing an individual in a heightened state of concentration with an increase in susceptibility to suggestions.
Visualization
An individual forms a mental representation of an object, movement, or experience.
Biofeedback
Often used in chronic pain situations where the individual gains a greater awareness of when the physiological functions are beginning to generate that pain. A corresponding relaxation and pain blocking strategy is then activated.
Autogenic training
Daily practice sessions of relaxation that usually includes visualization as a tool for initiating relaxation.
Negative thought stoppage
When stress and negative thoughts begin, a conscious effort is made, saying “stop”, or imaging a stop sign that then blocks the negative thought and stress.
Centering
Redirecting energy, stress, anger etc. to body center, behind the belly button. Thus detaching and clearing the mind of stress and negative thoughts.
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” William James

I’m studying for my Communications class and need an explanation.

Instructions: This assignment is the 3rd part of an Discussion Post. Posted below is Part 1 and Part 2 for you to refernce, you must keep to the same CPC(Dog Owner) and be sure you are staying in tune with the other two discussion posts.Must be between 400-800 words.Remind us of your Class Proclaimed Culture (CPC)Explain where your CPC falls with regards to Power Distance (Low Power Distance OR High Power Distance)Then, in a separate paragraph, explain where your CPC falls with regards to it being Individualistic OR Collectivistic.Be sure to be specific for each categorization. It does not help us to understand your culture when we say, “It is a little low power distance AND high power distance” – select one. Think about where your CPC leans to help us to really understand the culture. This is the same for individualistic and collectivistic. Select one to really help us to see how your CPC operates.One category is not better than the other, they are simply ways to understand how the culture operates. Don’t place values on the categories. Being low power distance isn’t better than high power distance, or vice versa.Think about your culture. If there are competitions, one person gets paid more than the other, certain people get offices, and/or one leader – really think what that says about the culture with regards to power distance and being individualistic or collectivistic.You can give us examples to help us to understand how these play out.REMEMBER: This is about your CPC, not YOU. We don’t want to hear if you are high power distance or if you are individualistic or collectivistic – we WANT to hear how your CPC operatesCPC: DOG OWNER CULTURE: Discussion Board Part 1What I will use for myself is the dog owner culture as my CPC. I grew up with dogs and have now had my dog for over 12 years. My dog is honestly like my right arm, I feel very lost without her. As time has gone on people have made their pets more and more like humans in their lives opposed to just animals and that is how I feel about my dog. The dog owner culture is is made up of anyone who has a dog and treats it within the boundaries of a very important part of their life. People in the dog culture range from any ethnicity, age, demographic, and breed. There is no set rule for this culture but it is known without discussion that in the dog culture your dog is one of your top priorities. The dog culture can be found throughout anywhere in the US, with over 70 million US homes owning a dog. I know this because of some research I did on my own prior to this assignment about dog owners for another class. There are also sub cultures within the dog culture. This can be bred specific or it can be based on the area. When we look at San Diego alone, it is known to be a place where dog culture is huge. Most places you go are going to be dog friendly and are going to embrace the dog culture, some restaurants even have dog menus. No matter on the city, town, or state there will be a community of dog owners who are a part of the dog owner culture.I would title dog owners as a low context culture. There is lots of communication, engagement and verbal cues between dogs and owners as well as within the dog owner culture. You wouldn’t just meet someone and know oh they have a dog unless that open line of communication happened and you would discover they were part of your culture. Bonding over pictures of animals, petting each other dogs, and telling stories about your pets to one another is a large part of dog owner culture. You want to be open and friendly and participative when a part of the dog owner culture, one can not just assume they are a part of it just by walking into the dog part. Part 2 Discussion BoardThere is a huge piece of camaraderie in the dog culture. People want the connections, they want the relationships between other dog owners. It is a culture that is warm, welcoming, and always happy to see another dog owner become a part of it.The full stimulus-response model retains its focus on having a quantitative response based on a quantitative stimulus. It forms part of class conditioning concepts that insist on pairing a response with a subject’s stimuli mechanism. In dog cultures, the geographic sub-culture intimates that some areas apply their system and mechanism of stimuli prompting the dogs to answer in specific ways. San Diego operates a different dog culture from Texas. San Diego awards priority to a dog’s feeding mechanism leading to such dogs displaying a high level of closeness to their owners. In Texas, the state has a reputation of having many loose dogs due to the rather lax attitude visible between the owners, community, and society in feeding these dogs (Hallman, 2018). Food has remained one of the most reliable tactics of classical conditioning in dogs, and its provision across various geographies can determine how the dogs activate quantitative responses. The full stimuli process gives way to the full perception process. The full perception process works on information processing and filtering within the process of aiding interpretation. Under this mechanism, organisms achieve full perception based on previous experiences(Caeiro et al., 2017). People treat dogs according to breed, leading to breed-specific sub-cultures. Chihuahuas bred in Europe and transferred in Africa will apply a consistent and constant perception process. The German shepherd has always brought up a remarkably consistent behavioral mannerism regardless of the physical location. The breeds may bring out a slight differentiation reaction to a change of environment. However, the biological factors in the perception construction process remain supreme. A grand case study of the perception presence as relevant in the dog culture remains the aggression displayed by some breeds and passive responses brought out by others. At no given time will a Chihuahua react in a similarly aggressive manner as a German Shepherd. Breed-specific areas go beyond the low context subcultures of communication.The standpoint theory promotes the low context subcultures through the insistence on knowledge formation as the foundation to socialization. Low context sub-cultures inform how a dog relates with the owner creating a unique relationship (Caeiro et al., 2017). If a dog’s owner allocates time to the dog, invests in close communication such as non-verbal cues and becomes emotionally responsive to the dog’s needs, the dog will positively respond to such a relationship. It is easily possible to detect dog-owner intimacy based on the forms of knowledge exchange between the dog and its owners. Creating a social system proceeds to then define how an owner communicates to their dog. If they whistle every day upon reaching home, the dog will absorb that kind of socialization. The standpoint theory qualifies dogs as social animals willing to firmly participate in owner-dog socialization processes.

Genre and Format
Adobe Spark Page/website, 750-900 words of written text, including MLA in-text citation of print sources, and a works cited page. If you use free photos made available through Spark, they are licensed for fair use, so no citations are required. If you upload videos from YouTube or other sources, you will need to add them to your works cited page. You can also upload your own photographs or videos.
Sources: 8-10 sources, minimum 5 (popular and scholarly)
Task
By now, you have defined and narrowed your particular research question, located strong sources on your issue, and developed a solid academic argument on the issue. Your purpose for this multimodal assignment is to first research a specific public audience (rather than the academic audience that you were addressing in essay 2). Thereafter, you will develop a project that engages this public audience by presenting your issue in a way that highlights its importance, your stance on the issue, and the action that you want your audience to take on the issue. For instance, if my topic/issue this semester is gender bias, and in essay 2 I wrote about the problem of gender bias in the workplace and how it leads to discrimination and inequality in terms of salary and promotion, this assignment will be about what can be done to solve this problem.
You will need to think through the following elements of your rhetorical situation:

An Audience that has the potential to take the action you deem necessary on your issue.
A Purpose or specific action that you would like to see taken on your issue.
A compelling Context for your issue that will enable readers to understand the social importance of your argument.
Rhetorical Strategies that will move your audience to take up your call for action.
A Genre of writing (multi-modal) that will fulfill your purpose and move your specific audience.

Multimodal Composition
A multimodal text is composed by using one or more “modes” of communication such as a combination of “moving and still images, sounds, music, color, words and animations” (Takayoshi and Selfe 1). You have worked with integrating print and visual modes throughout the semester in your Spark Video Reflection journal. In choosing a blue background versus a photo on your slide, and adding print text onto that background, inserting music and recording your voice, you have really experienced what it means to engage in multimodal composition. For this assignment, I am asking you to make specific design choices by using Adobe Spark Page to convince your audience of the many ways in which the problem (from essay 2) can be solved.
Visual Design
As we will learn in class, there are several elements to effective visual design, and I will be asking you to focus on the most important of these as you develop your Public Argument.

Visual Function: A clear purpose for the text and design elements in your project. Each element will need to be “functional” rather than ornamental.
Visual Impact: visual images work with the text to create a persuasive overall effect, one that engages the viewer/reader and moves them to consider the argument.
Visual Coherence: clear and coherent connections between the visual elements of the text are connected by color, framing, font, shape, etc.
Visual Organization: visuals and text are arranged in a way that makes them easy for viewers/readers to comprehend.

Process

Purpose and audience: Start by approaching the short assignment, which will enable you to narrow down your specific focus and audience. In any argumentative writing, you need to be clear about the audience that you are seeking to persuade because it enables you to think from their point of view and address their concerns. By a public audience, we mean any segment of the population, not just restricted to the academia. As such, when I am looking for solutions to my problem of gender bias in the workplace, my audience could be all kinds of employers who are unaware of such biases and/or unwilling to do anything about it.
Genre: Since you till be making a Spark Page, which is a website that works like a vertical scroll (like this assignment), you can start this step by posting on the discussion board about the design and color choices that you are considering. For instance, for my topic on gender bias, I might want to use colors along the pink/blue spectrum to signal the inequality in the workplace, and then switch to pink or purple as I emphasize the solutions.
Drafting: The most effective way to compose in a multimodal genre is to write out the print text in a Word document, and select images/make layout choices based on that content. So, while I have a general idea of what colors and what kind of images I will use, I will set up my writing along these lines:

Thesis (Gender bias in the workplace continues to impact the wages and wellbeing of women; unless more specific action is taken by employers, the inequality in the workplace will impact its overall productivity)
Background information (from the synthesis essay to show the prevalence of gender bias across workplaces in the US)
Summary of the problem (from the academic argument to show why it is a problem)
Analysis of several solutions (use videos, images, and scholarly sources to support your claims)
Refutation of the counterargument (workplaces are doing so much already in terms of providing training for employees; however, the practical implementation of such training has been slow and there is need for routine updates, rather than a one-time session).
Recommendation for action: what would be the best course going forward and how will it be beneficial to everyone.
Conclusion: Refer back to the thesis and emphasize the need for action and its long term benefits.
Making the Spark Page: Now that I have my content ready, I will start making the Spark Page by choosing the layout (how many split screen, how much glideshow, grid etc.). I will have a workshop session on Friday to help you create the Spark Page.

Feedback: More than any of your works this semester, the multimodal project benefits the most from peer review and any feedback that you can gather. Since your audience is more open, you can also gather feedback from friends and family, just to see if the layout works for them, what they say about your choice of colors/font etc. As always, I will also be providing feedback on the drafts.
Revision and evaluation: Like all your previous drafts, you will revise the draft on the basis of the feedback that you have received. The evaluation for this assignment counts for more points because I am hoping that you will discuss your process as well as the choices that you made in about a page. This evaluation is also your chance to justify what you did, how you went about it, and why it matters.
Submission: You will need to publish the Spark Page and then copy and paste the link in the text box. You can upload the self-evaluation page separately as a Word document.