Assignment: Environmental Scanning
Environmental scanning is a useful tool to create awareness and knowledge of how information relates to current environmental conditions. It is usually specific to a topic. For this course the topic is microeconomics, or any aspect of that topic that is discussed in the text. The process involves perusing and gathering articles from various media sources that pertain to that topic. The sources must be as reliable as possible and should be current (not more than one week old if possible). Sources can include all news web sites, business databases from the library web site, newspaper and magazine sites, and any other source that can provide up-to-date, reliable information. The article does not necessarily have to apply to any particular chapter information, it just needs to pertain to (micro) economics in some way. This should be specified in the summary and/or the impact statement. The whole purpose of this is to tie the text book to real life and to explain how the economy affects all of us in various ways. The process includes preparing a page of information that includes the following:
I. The title of the article
II. The source of the article
III. The date of the article
IV. The url for the article
V. The author of the article
VI. A good, strong summary of the article
VII. An explanation as to how the information in that article could possibly impact you, now or in the future.
Format your assignment according to the give formatting requirements:
1. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.