For this activity I will need an Annotated Research Source List (Research Checklist) and a Fact Sheet Rough Draft

Please follow the instructions bellow:

The first step in the process of putting together this report is to conduct research to find specific information relevant to your goals within a career path or academic field, AND about the organization (company or school) to which you might submit an application. Your research goals should be as specific and directed as possible. Look for the following information:

1. Required qualifications that you must meet in order to be considered for the position or program.
2. Requirements of doing the job or completing the grad program.
3. Salary, benefits, advancement opportunities (job); costs, financial aid, student employment opportunities (grad school).
4. Relevant facts & info about location, mission statement, outreach, reputation, company or school culture, etc.
5. Specific focuses within your career path or academic field: research that interests you, individuals of importance with whom you might want to work, newsworthy achievements that relate to your goals, etc.

Use the Research Resources links posted below to get started, and then perform a focused Internet search to dig deeper. You are required to use sources both from the company’s or university’s own website AND from sources outside their own material. This ensures a thorough and unbiased mix of sources. Use the Annotated Research Source List form to guide you through your research process.

• SDSU Library Guided Research (Links to an external site.)

Scroll down the menu on the left. Start with the “Career Exploration & Planning” link; there are many resources to explore and learn from.

1. Annotated Research Source List (Research Checklist)

Use the Research Resources links page in Module 2 to get started, and then perform a focused Internet search to dig deeper. Remember, you are required to use sources both from the company’s or university’s own website AND from sources outside their own material. This ensures a thorough and unbiased mix of sources.

As you conduct your research, follow the instructions posted on the Research Resources page, and use the Annotated Research Source List form linked below to guide you through your research process, making sure to find sources that provide information in all of the categories listed. Enter the NAMES of the sources (author, name of article and/or publication or website, etc.) AND the URLs. (Do not only list the URLs.) Upload the completed form to submit for this assignment. Points will be earned based on the thoroughness, completeness, and relevance of the research sources and listings. Upload the completed form as a PDF or Word doc, or copy onto a Google doc and post a sharable link (do not share via email).

2.Fact Sheet Rough Draft (I just need a draft for now)

INSTRUCTIONS for Composing the full Fact Sheet:

1. The finished fact sheet should be approximately 1,000 words (give or take 100 words in either direction),  format (Links to an external site.)”>block format (Links to an external site.) (single-spaced with a double space between sections, no indents). Go by word count and not by page count (1,000 words is roughly equivalent to about 4 pages of single-spaced text, before any spacing or visuals are added). It should consist of paragraphs, not just lists, but should include some lists within the paragraphs, as appropriate.
2. Because it is to be composed as an online text, you will incorporate digital resources, including hyperlinks, videos, and images. Note: When reading your document within Turnitin, these links will not be functional, but they will show up as being there by the underlined formatting that automatically happens. I can download your submission as a Word file or PDF to test functionality when I grade it.
3. While this is not an assignment in graphic design, a demonstrated awareness of the visual appeal required to engage an online reader is part of the desired outcome. Research shows that online readers prefer to read small chunks of information rather than longer text passages and respond to visual cues to hold their interest. Therefore, your fact sheet must include the following:
   • Subheadings to mark sections of your text. These subheadings should clearly indicate what the reader should expect to learn about in the section they head up. If you wish, you may use bold, upper case, and/or colored font to draw the eye to the subheadings.
   • Short paragraphs
   • Bulleted lists where appropriate to condense a set of information concisely.
   • At least two images that convey useful, relevant visual information about the company or school, such as photographs, charts or graphs, logos, etc. One (or more) image(s) must be a data graphic, and one or more must be illustrative.
   • A video that conveys information about the company or school. Use a hyperlink to take the reader to the video, and frame the link with wording that indicates it’s a video, and what it’s about.
4. Do not use academic style citations or footnotes. Rather, you should document all sources using hyperlinks within your text that take your reader directly to your sources. Be sure to read the “Integrating Sources with Hyperlinks” page, and follow the guidelines below:

• • • When you insert a hyperlink, only type the name of the source in your text, and not the URL (http://….com).
    • Be careful to insert the hyperlink accurately, so that the word(s) hyperlinked take the reader precisely to where they indicate.
    • Include attribution in your framing of the hyperlinked source, so the reader understands where the source is found.
    • Use the following example of the above guidelines to help you format your digital source documentation correctly:

The SDSU School Counseling program claims in their mission statement (Links to an external site.) to prepare their graduates to become “student advocates” who will become “culturally competent leaders in educational reform and social justice in the schools and communities they serve.”

• • • For image source attribution, you can select the image itself and insert the hyperlink within the image, or you can type the source in smaller font beneath the image and hyperlink it there.
    • Similarly, videos need to be hyperlinked–otherwise, readers would not be able to view them. Be clear in your text that the link readers see leads to a video.

1. Do not simply copy and paste information from sources; you are to compose this fact sheet, showing an ability to synthesize information, paraphrase and quote directly when appropriate, and attribute information properly to their original sources (see #4 above). Failure to properly paraphrase, quote, and attribute to sources will be considered as plagiarism.
2. A fact sheet is—surprise!—all about the facts, and not about how you feel about those facts, your process of discovery, your goals, or your interests. Therefore, your writing style should be straightforward and impartial–no opinions, no personal comments, no self-references or direct addresses to the reader (no “I” and no “you”). Keep your focus solely on the career or graduate program, and the company, organization or school you might be applying to in the future.