This final assignment in the economy, employment, and diversity series is a white paper you will write for people moving from your home country to your other assigned country. The white paper will assist readers in understanding the differences in being employed or being an employer in their new country compared to their/your home country. You will also address the challenges and protections for one category of diverse potential employees that are significant in your two countries. Group members should select different diversity categories from the list below:

• Age: Child labor/minimum age requirements, or old age protections and retirement requirements and earned post-retirement benefits
• Cultural or Ethnic Minorities: If you select this category, you will likely be comparing the situation for two different populations (for example, for Finland and Malaysia, I would be comparing employment issues for indigenous Sami in Finland to indigenous Orang Asli in Malaysia).
• Gender: Women’s employment
• Gender Identity
• Sexual Orientation
• Physical Disability
• Mental Disability
• Race or Skin Tone

Viewing to Support Support Your Writing

The following videos will provide you with input to help you successfully complete this assignment.

• Compare and Contrast (Links to an external site.)(2:35) This brief video provides you with several approaches for thinking about the input you have collected to compare and contrast your two countries. It then offers several organizational patterns you can use to present your ideas.
• Writing as Decision Making (Links to an external site.)(1:58) This brief UNC Writing Center video provides you with ideas on developing a structure for your document.
• Writing Concisely (Links to an external site.)(2:08) This brief UNC Writing Center video provides you with approaches to making your writing more concise.

Refer back to Economy, Employment and Diversity Pre-Writing Assignment if you need to review any of the resources from that assignment phase.

The following readings are resources to assist you in completing your writing well.

• Editing and Proofreading (Links to an external site.) on the UNC Writing Center Tips & Tools website. This brief resource describes the difference between editing and proofreading along with approaches to help you with both of these important writing steps.
• Reading Aloud (Links to an external site.) on the UNC Writing Center Tips & Tools website. This brief resource talks about the uses and benefits of reading aloud to yourself to assist you in determining what needs to be edited in your document.

Assignment Elements

While you were able to work as a group on the research and discuss your preliminary thinking after researching, the writing of the paper is completed individually.

1. Revise Pre-Writing

After completing the in-class workshop, revise your thesis and introduction.

2. Develop a Title

Develop a title for your document that is brief and specifically identifies the topic of your document. The best titles are worded to catch the reader’s attention.

3. Develop Your Document

Documents will include the following titled sections

• Introduction. The introduction must accomplish the following:
  • Introduces the audience to the topic and its importance.
  • This introduction contains a thesis statement that makes the primary claim you will argue..
  • States how you will use the document to support your thesis.
  • Present this in a concise, clear paragraph that makes the reader want to read your white paper.

After you complete the body of your document, review your introduction to make sure it accurately states what you accomplished with the white paper. Revise the text as needed to ensure the introduction and the document body work together.

• Countries Overview. In this section, you will provide a comparison of the aspects of each country that may influence the decisions they make of the structure of their employment systems. Influences can include culture, politics, history, and the economy. Tables or other graphics may be used in addition to text if you feel they help convey parts of your message more effectively. (If you take tables or graphics from another document, you must include an in-text citation.) In-text citations are expected to support what you state in this section.

Groups may share sources and discuss ideas, but each student must complete their own writing. Please do not complete research for classmates who have not completed this work themselves.

• Employment System Comparison. In this section, you will compare and contrast (Links to an external site.) the employment system of the two countries. Use the home country as the foundation for your readers’ expectations about employment and describe how the system in the new country is the same, similar, or different. Discuss aspects of the country that may shape these similarities or differences. Tables or other graphics may be used in addition to text if you feel they help convey parts of your message more effectively. (If you take tables or graphics from another document, you must include an in-text citation.) If you find government or international organization websites that describe the system in more detail than you are providing, include a hyperlink to those sources in a ‘for more information’ statement. Be sure to have parallel data and information on both countries. In-text citations are expected to support what you state in this section.

• Diverse Population. This section will provide a comparison of a specific diverse population that has employment challenges in both countries. Again, use what your readers are familiar with from your home country to compare what they will find in their new country. Discuss aspects of the country that may shape these similarities or differences. Tables or other graphics may be used in addition to text if you feel they help convey parts of your message more effectively. (If you take tables or graphics from another document, you must include an in-text citation.) If you find government or international organization websites that describe the system in more detail than you are providing, include a hyperlink to those sources in a ‘for more information’ statement. Be sure to have parallel data and information on both countries. In-text citations are expected to support what you state in this section.

• Conclusion. This conclusion is a summary of your ENTIRE document. It includes a reworded restatement of your thesis as emerging from a statement of the document’s elements you have presented. It should conclude with a reminder of the document’s importance for the readers.
• Reference List. The document will end with an APA formatted reference list (Links to an external site.)alphabetized by the first letter of each item. You must include 6 new references, and each must have at least one APA formatted in-text citation (Links to an external site.). You may also reuse any references you used in your first document.

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4. Revise, Editing, and Proofread Your Document

Professional documents must be readable, clear, well organized, and concise. They must also be free of errors. Two approaches may help you with finding typos and grammar and word errors. First, read your work aloud (Links to an external site.) to yourself after stepping away from it for a while (at least a day). Doing this will help you catch wording errors or omissions and poorly constructed sentences. Second, you should use advanced grammar-checking software to review grammar, punctuation, or other writing errors. The base paid platform of Grammarly is one option; however, others are available as well.

No quotes – The use of quotations in professional documents is rare as you are being paid to do work for a specific client. For this reason, no quotes may be used in your document; instead, learn to paraphrase effectively.

NO plagiarism – Plagiarism is the use of the words, ideas, data, graphics, or graphic contents of others without giving them credit through in-text citation and reference list inclusion. Plagiarism in college can result in an ‘F’ on the assignment or course. If egregious, you may be expelled from the program. In practice, the consequences are also severe, involving the loss of a job or career, the suspension of a license, or having to pay damages to the person whose work you steal. The words in your document must represent your own thinking based on the information you have gathered. Citing credible sources from which you got ideas gives you credibility, which is required in this work. If you are unclear on plagiarism or are from a region of the world that may think about it differently, review the Plagiarism page (Links to an external site.) developed by the library.