Need Assistance. Two discussion question and four replies after the discussion question get posted. Need questions by Thursday January 24, 2019 1700 or 5PM EST.

PADM 530

  • In reviewing this module/week's question, incorporate your understanding of economic development. Also consider any experiences and what you have observed in your community.

  • Select an economic development project in your community. The project must have been implemented and/or completed within the past 10 years. Provide background about the project and the intended economic benefits. In presenting your overview of the project, compare the project's development process to the economic planning challenges outlined in Leigh and Blakely text, Chapter 1 -4. To what degree did the community economic development project experience the transition in local planning? Discuss. Also, based upon your understanding of Chapter 1 - 2 of the McDonald text, outline the causal theory that under-girds your jurisdiction’s development project. What has been identified as enhancing prospects for community sustainability? Describe in detail the configuration of public, private, and not-for-profit sector linkages that proved instrumental in making your community’s project a reality?

PPOG 500

  • Discussion Board: Forum 2

Topic: Objective versus Opinion Writing

Thread Prompt:  For this module/week’s Discussion Board Forum, locate 1 example of opinion writing and 1 example of objective, analytical writing about the research question you have chosen to examine during this course. Blog posts are generally good sources of opinion writing and will be accepted for the purposes of this assignment; peer-reviewed academic or professional journal articles are recommended sources for objective, analytical writing. Thoroughly compare and contrast the selected articles and explain what characteristics differentiate the opinion writing from the objective/analytical writing. Provide examples and/or brief quotations that illustrate your analysis. In your conclusion, discuss the extent to which these articles reflect the search for insight in light of Solomon's encouragement in Proverbs 2:1-11. Remember to provide a complete Reference list of sources/articles.
Reply Prompt: For your replies, you must thoroughly review and reply to at least 2 of your classmates’ threads. Compare and contrast the criteria applied by your classmates in their threads with the criteria you used in your thread.
Post your thread by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Thursday. Post your replies by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Sunday.