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Fall 2020 - Contexts of PA, e-geoduck - Coggle Diagram
Fall 2020 - Contexts of PA
MPA Orientation
How to be a good and successful learner
How to succeed through communicating with faculty, staff, and fellow students in the cohort.
Campus/online resources
Create family atmosphere and build relationships
Maintain good temperament. Be patient with your learning process and don't be too hard on yourself.
Case Analysis
Evaluating a real world case to see how it affects events, decisions, changes or actions by others
Idenitify issues
Effectiveness vs Efficiency
Important lessons in PA learned from case
One Pager
Supportive evidence for proposal
Visuals to tell the story
Give background, facts and analysis
Learn quickly and make decisions
Critical Thinking
Taking a look at views that may differ from your own
Testing your own knowledge
Census Databook Assessment
Interpret data to produce recommendations to a select audience.
One-pager formatting
Tell a story through data analysis
Annotated Bibliography for White Paper
The importance of summaries and in-depth reminders that are descriptive and evaluative.
Collaborative writing- working with a team of 2 or more cowriters to complete an essay
Literary Review
Collaborative writing with one voice.
Discussing, fact checking, and synthesizing your own resources into an organized pattern.
Finding patterns, new ideas, reviewing articles and other literature.