I chose the subject Salvation Army for my final Project

Preview of Your Final Project

Over the next several weeks you will be learning about service
learning and also investigating a community organization. You will be
reading about service learning, as well as completing a research project
about a community organization of your choosing in order to evaluate
their role in the community and the impact they have. This project may
be submitted as a paper, a presentation, or a speech.

The Community Organization: Clearly
indicate the focus of the organization and the community needs that the
organization. A brief historical background of the organization should
also be included.

• Discuss any community partnerships that they have. Suggest additional partnerships that you feel they should have.
• Explore how the cross-cultural challenges and humanitarian considerations are involved.
• Demonstrate how the organization uses volunteers and the economic benefits associated with this (not just “free labor”).
• Illustrate any roadblocks that the organization has faced or potential could face and how they did or might find solutions.
• Describe the organization’s vision for the future.
• Indicate
  what areas in which you feel the organization could improve. What
  challenges (technological, political, economic, laws and regulations,
  community-based initiatives, educational, etc.) will they need to
  overcome?
• Discuss
  potential ways you might be able to contribute to the organization. How
  could your own interests, talents, and skills benefit this
  organization?

Research:

• You will need to include a minimum of ten (10) sources to support your project claims.

For All Assignment Types
Your
assignment should be well-organized and demonstrate an orderly flow of
information that clearly addresses the subject chosen. In addition to
the above criteria, your final project should include the following
elements:

You will be evaluated over the following five soft skills throughout the course:

• Communication
• Critical Thinking
• Respect for Diversity
• Professional, Ethical, and Social Responsibility
• Lifelong Learning

The expectations for each of the skill areas are:

Communication – For this skill demonstrate the following criteria for proficiency as you develop your final project:

• Your writing is clear and concise and is free of errors,
  demonstrating proficiency in using citations, and following style
  guidelines in terms of formatting, conventions, and grammar, and is
  structured in a way that readers can easily follow. Appropriate tools
  and graphics are used.
• Approaches the analysis of the research project purposefully
  and critically, fully exploring the learning experience. Demonstrate a
  full comprehension of Service Learning, showing an ability to blend the
  learning experience each week.
• Capture a clear tone in your writing. Your paper must
  demonstrates an awareness of your target audience, seeking to meet their
  needs and expectations.

Critical Thinking – For this skill demonstrate the following criteria for proficiency as you develop your final project:

• Your information is drawn from source(s) and through
  experience and observation. Thoroughly applying a comprehensive analysis
  or synthesis of the materials you review and apply to support your
  paper.
• Identify and evaluates relevant points of view. Use questions to determine accuracy, relevance, and completeness of information.
• Your evaluation of solutions considered in important factors
  in problem-solving, such as the context of the problem or challenges,
  applying logic and reasoning, and the feasibility and potential impact
  of your solutions. Your discussion is well documented and comprehensive
• Examines all issues with a full, thorough understanding in
  your formulation of ideas, the decision-making process, and in
  presenting a position in your paper

Respect for Diversity – For this skill demonstrate the following criteria for proficiency as you develop your final project:

• Demonstrate an ability to suspend judgment of culturally
  challenging ideas and awareness of the benefits of multiple perspectives
  (variety of sources) as they apply to your understanding and
  problem-solving strategies.
• Ask questions as you move along with the developing your
  papers. The weekly reflections assignment are a good springboard to keep
  your traction as you develop your paper and assignments and move
  through the assigned books for the course.

Professional, Ethical, and Social Responsibility – For this skill demonstrate the following criteria for proficiency as you develop your final project:

• Demonstrate the ability to recognize and understand complex
  professional, social, and ethical issues and their complexities as
  encountered through your project.
• Be able to identify and adapt to relationships among ideas beyond those presented within the issue itself.
• Ensure your work matches assignment requirements, is thorough and comprehensive, and advances the issue being examined.
• Demonstrate your willingness to embrace your role within and
  your responsibilities to a community, and keep those elements central to
  the decision-making process in an effort to better the community.
• Demonstrate an understanding that success is reliant on the
  engagement of all members within the community, and actively seek ways
  to mutually benefit the group.

Lifelong Learning – For this skill demonstrate the following criteria for proficiency as you develop your final project:

• Review prior learning, both inside and outside of the
  classroom, and note connections between formal and informal learning
  experiences, drawing connections between life-learning and formal
  learning, and show an understanding of how each can inform the other as
  they apply to new situations.
• Demonstrate that you see academic learning as a process of
  examining ideas addressed in one discipline and be able to apply those
  ideas to another situation.
• Demonstrate that you see learning, both inside and outside of the classroom, as valuable and interconnected.
• Show an ability apply learning from different sources to
  develop a broader, more comprehensive perspective about the implications
  of individual learning experiences.

You have three options in how you can present your final project:

As a Paper
Your paper should be creative
and interesting, and demonstrate what you have learned. It should be a
minimum of 5-7 pages in length and you will use APA style formatting
with a title page and reference section. You should use Times New Roman,
12pt. font, double-space your lines, and set your page up with one
inch margins (See the APA Template included in the Course Resources
folder)

As a Presentation
Like the paper option,
your presentation should be creative, interesting, and demonstrate what
you have learned throughout the project. Your presentation should be 8
to 10 minutes in length, include visual elements (graphics, pictures,
etc.), be presented using a program such as PowerPoint or Prezi, and you
should record yourself giving the presentation (consider using screen
capture programs such as JING or Eyejot to record your voice—be aware,
you may need to create more than one file).

As a Speech
As it is in the other two
options, your speech should be creative, interesting, and demonstrate
what you have learned throughout the project. Your speech should be 8 to
10 minutes in length and include a typed handout.

Writing:

• Title your Project
• Introduction: Begin with the attention-getter, tie in the background information, and end the introduction with your thesis.
• Body:
• • Clearly identify the topic of each section. The topic must
    be a statement, not a question, and should begin with your own ideas and
    your own words.
  • After identifying your topic, use quotations or paraphrase
    from your sources to help illustrate the point you are making (be sure
    to identify the author(s) and source(s)).
  • After you have given support, spend a sentence or two explaining how the example(s) support the section topic.
  • A compilation of your research, your literature review,
    your methods, (how the data was collected or generated and analyzed),
    and your results should be included in the body of your project.
• Conclusion:
• • Restate your thesis. This means that you say about the same thing as you did in your thesis, but you say it differently.
  • After stating your thesis, restate the topics from each of
    your body sections and emphasize what is important for your
    audience/readers to remember.
  • End your conclusion with a call to action that illustrates
    what your audience/readers should do with the information you presented.

Please note: You will have the
opportunity to revise and perfect this project, but you should do your
best to make each step as complete as possible so you can receive more
relevant and constructive feedback from your instructor and your peers.