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For this assignment, we will address the foundational course objectives that focus upon the role of and challenges facing the private sector in securing the homeland government’s expectations related to these issues

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For this assignment, we will address the foundational course objectives that focus upon the role of and challenges facing the private sector in securing the homeland government’s expectations related to these issues. Specifically, you will provide details regarding how a specific private sector business/organization (whether that be a “real world” company or a fictitious one) is addressing and carrying out the Joint National Priorities for Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience. In your reply, you will be expected to address these priorities by incorporating the topics we have covered thus far in class (i.e. critical infrastructure, continuity of operations planning, partnerships, information sharing, challenges, etc.) in a 5 page research paper.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

Make sure you read the instructions carefully and that you focus your paper on answering the assigned questions. This assignment is a research paper, not an opinion paper, so you need to use scholarly sources to support your thesis (see this library article How do I write a good thesis statement). Use formal academic writing and do not use the first person such as 'I' or 'my'; see this site on academic writing style (scholarly voice). Make sure you use APA style 7th edition in-text parenthetical citations at the end of every sentence where you are quoting another’s ideas (or any information) that is not your own thoughts and words, like this (Bergen, 2015, para. 14). Citations are required for paraphrases as well, but not the page or paragraph number in that case. You are welcome to use supplementary sources to compliment the assigned readings based upon your research, but make sure you use only scholarly and credible sources (do not use open websites and you never want to use wikipedia for a college level paper). Also, dictionaries and encyclopedias as well as general news sites (like CNN) are NOT appropriate for college level research papers. A good example of what NOT to use is NSA.Gov1.info -- not only is it not the NSA webpage, the site loaded with bogus information and if you scroll down to the bottom it says "This is a parody of nsa.gov and has not been approved, endorsed, or authorized by the National Security Agency or by any other U.S. Government agency." You need to use mainly scholarly and reputable academic books and journal articles.

Academic Requirements:

- Make sure your paper content meets the minimum acceptable length listed above with full pages of text, not including the Title or Reference pages.

- Written according to the APA 7th edition style and format (parenthetical in-text citation formats only; not end notes or footnotes);

- Use Times New Roman 12 point font;

- 1 inch margins on all sides with no paragraph indentation other than the first line by .5 inches

- Double space all text (no extra lines or spaces after a paragraph or section headings and no added font sizes or lines either)

- A respectable number of credible resources used, cited in the paper as in-text citations, and included on the reference page. A good rule of thumb is at least 2 scholarly sources per page of content (so a minimum of 2 new scholarly sources per page in a research paper is acceptable for this assignment). Use those academic and credible sources provided to you throughout the course, as well as other scholarly material obtained from conducting your own research.

Finally, be mindful of excessive direct quotes as the paper should not contain just a string of quotations from sources. Make sure you comply with all academic integrity standards expected by APUS and as slide 14 of the APUS Academic Integrity presentation posted in course syllabus (and the week 1 introduction forum) states “Quotes cannot make up more than 10% of the text of your assignment.” So paraphrase where you can and provide your own analysis and synthesis of your research (direct quotes only when necessary to support your thesis). (automatically).