You will present a 4 5 page position paper, responding to the question:  

Best practices in workplace communication: What is the most important skill of effective communicators?

Webster Dictionary defines argument as a statement leading from a premise to a conclusion. A premise is a 

supporting statement, containing facts that support the conclusion. A conclusion is the supported statement, that is, 

one can accept it as true on the basis of the premises that support it. Premises cannot be opinions; they must be

acceptable and relevant facts that supply us with information to support the conclusion. You should use at least 3 

scholarly sources in presenting your premises to support your conclusion.  Present an argument in which you identify the 

most important skill necessary for being an effective communicator in the workplace. Maybe it is listening? Maybe it is 

making a presentation? Maybe it is persuasive writing? Maybe it is another skill? Of all the skills needed to communicate 

effectively in the workplace, choose one and present an argument as to why it is the most important.

The Scenario:
You are back at your plant the Monday after the Dangerous When Wet leaking tanker incident happened, and you are telling your fellow HazMat Team Coordinator how you handled the situation. Before he has a chance to offer his opinion, a call comes in over your radio that a forklift has punctured a 55 gallon drum at the door between the oxidizer storage area and the production department. There is a spill, and no one is injured; however, the production employee does not know what was spilled. You make an immediate page to all emergency response team members in the area, and then you head out the door to the scene with your fellow HazMat Team Coordinator (the production department chief engineer). While en route to the scene, you call the plant manager and apprise her of what you know and that you will report back as soon as you have more information.
The incident command center can either be the production office or the conference room near the plant manager’s office. In this case, your first choice is the production office. The storage area building has multiple storage bays for oxidizers, flammables, acids, and bases. When you arrive near the scene, you find the punctured drum on its side against a pallet of three other drums and a very small fuming cloud of vapor developing from the area, but you cannot tell its exact point of origin. It turns out that the drums are just inside the
storage area building. You can see that the drums on the pallet have flammable labels. The fourth flammable drum has been knocked off the pallet and is also lying on its side next to the punctured drum. The punctured drum has not been identified at this point – it is a strong oxidizer, strong acid, or strong base raw material.

Questions:

1. How do you proceed?

2. What information are you after, how do you gather it, and what instructions do you provide for your team?

3. What hazardous situations are you and your team facing? If you need to, you can differentiate these situations depending on the punctured drum being a strong oxidizer, strong acid, or strong base. Develop a brief priority list and a brief action list for what you should do.

4. What, if any, restraints should you exercise?

5. What advice would you give to any other individuals coming upon the scene?

6. Do you call for an evacuation of any, or all, of the plant itself? There are approximately 180 employees currently on site during this first shift – located in different areas around the plant (i.e., administrative offices, shipping and receiving, raw material bulk chemical storage, finished product bulk chemical storage, production operations, packaging operations, labs, and production/engineering offices).

Cultural Activity Report

  Go to Google Art Project (http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/project/art project) and virtually tour a museum.  Follow the directions for the event report.  I would also like you to include an assessment of the google art project site.

https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/collection/national gallery athens?projectId=art project

In your paper, identify the virtual site you used and include your thoughts about how this experience differed from attending a live performance or an art museum.

2. Write a two to three (2 3) page report (500 750 words) that describes your experience.

◦Clearly identify the event location, date attended, the attendees, and your initial reaction upon arriving at the event.

◦Provide specific information and a description of at least two (2) pieces.

◦Provide a summary of the event and describe your overall reaction after attending the event.

◦Use at least the class text as a reference (additional sources are fine, not necessary unless required by your content). Your report should include connections you make between things observed in your activity and things learned in the course and text.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

•Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA Style format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. (Note: Students can find APA style materials located in the course shell for reference)

•Include a cover page containing the tile of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

•Explain the importance of situating a society’s cultural and artistic expressions within a historical context.

•Examine the influences of intellectual, religious, political, and socio economic forces on social, cultural, and artistic expressions.

•Use technology and information resources to research issues in the study of world cultures.

•Write clearly and concisely about world cultures using proper writing mechanics

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills.