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Essay Instructions: The paper should give the strategic plan/analysis of "The new york times company"
The paper should include a set of references, with citations to each of these in the text book
"Robert W. Keidel, The Geometry of Strategy (Routledge, 2010)"

Please follow the outline below, using its headings and subheads.

1. Analysis (of the present)
a. Organization’s value chain & design
b. Institutional, corporate, & business (competitive) strategies
c. Competitive context (5-force analysis, technology & product life cycles)
d. Financial position of organization
2. Planning (for the future??"using a time frame of your choice)
a. Three plausible strategic directions (with positives, negatives, & uncertainties
of each)
b. Recommended strategic direction (what), and rationale (why)
c. Organizational/implementation concerns & recommendations (how)

Essay Instructions: Find an article and to provide some in-depth information about the topic’s significance to the current business climate regarding finance. Articles must be from respected journals, newspapers, or magazines such as The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, Business Week, Fortune, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, etc. Thank you.

Essay Instructions: Need a compare and contrast (C&C) essay of 2 readings from the New York Times. Compare the front page news on 01/01/1964 (my birthday) and the front page news on 02/15/1944 (my mothers birthday). Also, need to choose one other area of the paper to C&C such as sports, entertainment, comics, etc.
Please choose any topics that you feel will make a good paper. If you do not have access to the NY Times archives, I can email/fax any necessary articles you require.


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Essay Instructions: Analysis of New York Times coverage of a topic from the 1950s. IMPORTANT! PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS PAPER IS NOT a report on an event from the 1950s. It is an analysis of the way The New York Times reported on that topic

Step-by-step instructions:

1. Review the history of the U.S. in the 1950s and select a preliminary topic to investigate. (The sooner you do this, the more time you will have to narrow or broaden the topic, if necessary, or to change topics if another one seems more interesting or doable.)

2. Go the Historical New York Times AT the MC Library website, NOT at nytimes.com

3. Limit the search to articles only and to specific dates (and exclude articles from the AP and UPI.) Check off titles that look promising. Scan their contents. Widen or narrow the search as necessary.

4. Select at least 3-5 articles on one aspect of your topic from the 1950s.

5. Print them out. (The articles should not be included with the final paper.)

6. Take notes on the NYT articles. Are they clear? Interesting (or not)? Thorough (or not)? Accurate (or not)? Here you will judge the facts/coverage in the articles in light of the facts/coverage from the other sources as well. Provide specific examples to support your reasons on all of these points.

7. Analyze the articles further in light of what OTHER SOURCES tell you about the topic.

8. DO NOT USE ANY internet website unless you get specific approval of it by me.

9. Write a preliminary outline of your analysis of the articles. Do not write an outline of the topic or even of the order of articles. Rather the outline shows the organization of your thoughts/your analysis. This is due on Nov. 17.

10. Compile a “Works Cited” page with
title and date of article(s), with authors, if listed
title, author, publisher, date of books
date of class notes (if applicable)

NOTE: Cite each use of the material. Every, single use of the sources must be credited. This includes any new information, even if expressed in your own words. For an explanation of how and when to cite sources, see the School of Arts website. Also, I will help you any way I can on this and any aspect of the paper. A Note on Plagiarism: Copying/pasting from the Internet or any other source is stealing – a serious academic offense – and will result in an F.

11. Citation format:
for historians: author last name, page number
for NYT articles: author (if listed), title of article, date

12. Write a preliminary draft of the heart of the paper – the central section – i.e. your analysis of the way the articles treat the event, with examples, and evaluated in light of the way the secondary sources present the historical record. When the articles and the secondary sources differ, analyze which is likely more accurate, and why. Rewrite this central section several times.

Write the conclusion: what is your overall assessment of this particular coverage, and why?

13. Write the introduction, introducing the reader to YOUR OWN ANALYSIS OF NYT’S TREATMENT.

14. Rewrite the draft many times: for clarity, accuracy, style, examples, etc.

15. Come up with an interesting title that hints at your conclusion, one that reflects
your own analysis/opinions/conclusions regarding the ARTICLES’ COVERAGE/TREATMENT/APPROACH to the topic. AGAIN, THE TITLE IS NOT ABOUT THE ELECTION BUT HINTS AT YOUR VIEW OF THE COVERAGE.

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