Management

Course Project Outline With Title and References Pages
In Week 3, you began the process of developing your Course Project by brainstorming a list of people who are leaders somehow related to your field of study and who might be good role models for you in your quest to become a leader in your career field. By this point you should have selected a role-model leader. Now you are ready to start gathering information and putting together your actual Course Project (due in Week 8).
You will need to do some real research to gather information on the required elements as we explore the topic of leadership. Using the library databases (LexisNexis, EBSCO, ProQuest, etc.), you should identify and gather information from at least three good research sources. Use what you learned from your textbook (Chapter 5) and the Week 4 Discussion to help you find good sources.
Because this project is not just a biography of some famous person, you may only use one source from a biography database. Research to find and gather information on how your leader worked to become a recognized leader and how this person has demonstrated leadership in the field. You must also find information on the definition of leadership and key leadership skills, the role of individual accountability as it relates to leadership, and the process you might follow to develop leadership skills and become a leader.
For Week 5, you are to prepare an outline with a title page and a references page. This assignment will be scored out of 100 points. A thoughtfully prepared outline will help you organize all of your ideas and establish a framework for your well-supported, meaningful research project.
Your outline should be one to two pages long and should cover all required elements of the project in a logical manner. Each body section of your outline must include cited, researched support from quality sources found in the academic databases.
You must use at least three sources now, though you will most likely use more in your Final Project, because you are continuing to research and learn.
You must also include an APA-formatted title page and a references page listing all the sources you cited in the body of your outline.
Use this Outline Guide and Template (also available in Doc Sharing under Week 5) to help you decide what to research and how to write your properly APA-formatted title page, outline, and References page. Your outline can be similar to the model, but you should rewrite it in first person. Substitute the words and phrasing in this outline with ideas that reflect an overview of your project and the details you will include. For example, Change II. Your program area and intended career field to II. My Program: Justice Administration; My Career Goal: FBI Agent. You may add lines or condense sections in the model outline as you see fit.
Please remember that you must research and use source material to back up what you say. All sections marked on the model template with asterisks (*) should include researched information and parenthetical in-text citations.
If you are taking COLL148 on-site, you will make group presentations of the Course Project. You must write your own outline to receive credit. Each group member- outline should parallel other group members' outlines, but both ONLINE and ON-SITE students must write their own individual title pages, outlines, and references pages. After receiving feedback from your instructor, on-site students should combine the best elements of the group members' outlines into a single plan for your group PowerPoint.
Your outline is due by the end of Week 5. For a rubric, click here.
Submit your assignment in Week 5 to the Dropbox located on the silver tab at the top of this page. For instructions on how to use the Dropbox, read these Step-by-Step Instructions or watch this
 
Dropbox Tutorial .
 
See the Syllabus section "Due Dates for Assignments & Exams" for due date information.
To help you understand how to properly use and cite research sources and avoid plagiarism, please refer to these OTHER RESOURCES in Doc Sharing under Week 5.
APA 6th ed 10.1.docx—DeVry Academic Success Center guide to citing sources in-text and on References page
Guide to APA Research Writing and Formating.docx—Directions for setting up APA documents in MS Word.
Guide to APA Research Writing and Formatting TEMPLATE.docx—Pre-formatted APA document template; customize with your own content