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Week # VCS Alternative Assignment (VCSA)
Your Name
Westcliff University
Course Name – Course Code
Instructor Name
VCSA Submission Date
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Week # VCSA Assignment
Begin your VCSA Assignment here. Double-space the entire document and one space between
each sentence. Set the space before and after each paragraph to zero (0). Be sure to indent the
first line of each paragraph between five and seven spaces by pressing the Tab key one time on
the keyboard, or by using the paragraph formatting tool (best practice). Happy writing! This is
where your introduction belongs, which is a quick overview of the class session.
Main Class Content Review
In these paragraphs, you should detail the major content reviewed by your professor. There
should be sufficient detail, so that anyone reading this will have a good idea of the content
discussed during the class session and would serve as valuable notes for any other student. For
example, instead of stating “Prof. Jim talked about company communications…,” it would be
more appropriate to write “Prof. Jim reviewed multiple company communications examples,
including memos, regular emails, email blasts, loudspeaker announcements, letters, and more.
We discussed the best time and way to use each of these depending on the situation. For
example, an email blast might be appropriate for general updates on hours of operations, etc., but
not for informing customers of issues with their accounts….”
To assist you with capturing the major content reviewed, please consider the following
strategies:
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Use Cornell Notes to take notes while watching the video lecture.
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Google Docs Cornell Notes template
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Video: What are Cornell Notes?
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Use a Mind Map to help you structure your note taking.
Responses to Professor Questions
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In these paragraphs you should detail your responses to the questions asked of the class and you
directly by your professor. There should be sufficient detail, so that anyone reading this will have
a good idea of the content discussed during the class session and would serve as valuable notes
for any other student. Remember to provide a complete paragraph response to each question
asked based on the requirements for your course level:
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For Integrative Studies courses, the required number of paragraphs and key points to
include is 2. For Bachelor’s classes (non-IS), the required number is 3.
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For Master’s classes, the required number is 4.
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For Doctoral classes, the required number is 5.
A complete paragraph would begin with the question asked, followed by your original thought as
a response. This would be followed by outside information material (quotes or paraphrases) that
supports your contentions, followed by your own thoughts and words explaining how the quote
or paraphrase supports your thoughts.
Future Use
In these paragraphs, you should detail the key points supplied by your professor or a classmate
that you can use in either your future profession, your own business, or a future class. There
should be sufficient detail, so that anyone reading this will have a good idea of the content
discussed during the class session and would serve as valuable notes for any other student. This
means that this section should have the minimum required number of paragraphs and key point
requirements for your course:
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For Integrative Studies courses, the required number of paragraphs and key points to
include is 2. For Bachelor’s classes (non-IS), the required number is 3.
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For Master’s classes, the required number is 4.
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For Doctoral classes, the required number is 5.
Conclusions
In this paragraph, you must summarize in a few sentences what you learned, what you can apply,
and what you will take with you in the future, without repeating yourself from the main body of
the summary. Again, because this is a review, this cannot contain any new information, only a
review, and because it is your own thoughts, there should not be any quoted or paraphrased
material. Make sure that this is a complete paragraph. Notice if the paper has a continuous flow;
there are no page breaks between sections. The only page breaks occur between the title page
and the introduction, and between the summary or conclusions and the reference page. Note: If
there is a header at the bottom of the page (on the last line), you will need to insert a page break
immediately before the header to properly move it to the next page with its text.
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References
This is a hanging indent. To keep the hanging indent format, simply delete this line of text using
the backspace key, and replace the information with your reference entry. You need to have
several of these as per the instructions.
For Integrative Studies courses, the required number of academic resources to include in the
summary is 2.
For Bachelor’s classes (non-IS), the required number is 3.
For Master’s classes, the required number is 5.
For Doctoral classes, the required number is 7.
