Current Event Application AssignmentAPPLICATION ASSIGNMENT (Current Event)**Pay attention to the Current Event Grading Rubric found in the Resources folder in GettingStarted section.**This application assignment requires you to share a business related article from the past 6months that describes your view of our assigned course topic(s) for the week. In other words,your view may explain the topic’s effect, relevance, importance, non-significance, etc. in workplacebehavior. This assignment should consist of three distinct paragraphs. In the first paragraph youwill summarize the article you chose. In the second paragraph you will clearly identify and discussthe course topic(s) relevant to the article. In the third and final paragraph you should discuss yourviews about the topic and what the article stated.It is imperative to choose a concept being covered in this module. It is also important not to copymaterial from other related assignments or directly from the article itself–use proper citations andrewrite important components into your own words. Concepts and verbatim material will receivea zero.Current Event:• News story must be from a credible source within the last 6 months with appropriatecitation.• Context must be provided on why the story is immediately relevant to the topics beingcovered.• Responses which are purely opinion and anecdotal are not considered to besubstantive in nature.• Original news story from an external source plus one additional external sourcerequired.• Assigned textbook chapters from the course do not count as external sources, but you arewelcome to use the textbook in addition to the required external resource.Turnitin Requirements:• For each application assignment, your similarity score must meet a threshold of no morethan 20%.• Assignments with greater than 20% similarity must be revised and resubmitted to Turnitinuntil the 20% threshold is achieved.• For resubmissions, it may take up to 24 hours for a new similarity score.• It is your responsibility to allow enough time to receive a Turnitin similarity score report.• Assignments with more than 20% threshold will receive a zero.
