5The goal of this activity is how to behave well in a culture different from their own. Mini-reports (main posts) can draw on either/both personal experience and research.

 

Here are steps to take:

• Choose a country or region
• Choose a mini-report option
• Respond to other mini-reports

 

Choose a country or region

To prepare to write your mini-report, think about a country or a region of the world that you might like to visit. Perhaps you've even imagined living there for a few months or years–doing business or going to school.

What should you know about the customs of this country before you arrive there? Here are some questions to get you thinking. (Cover only the ones that seem appropriate to what you might be doing in the country or region.):

• What can you find out about how the culture you're researching regards time–must you be punctual? Or should you be up to a half hour late? A student in the previous session of the course found a very good video on YouTube with the subject "Cross-Cultural Communication on The Culture of Time."
• Should you begin a business negotiation with small talk? with dinner at a restaurant? with news about mutual friends? (That is, is it a "high context" culture?) Or should you immediately begin discussing details of your business transaction? (Is it a "low context" culture?)

 

Choose a mini-report option 

Here's more information about the two options for our discussion of culture and customs this week. Please choose just one (1) option:

• A report based on research, with informal identification and framing of sources
• A report based on personal experience, with concrete supporting examples

 

A report based on research, with informal identification and framing of sources

In order to be a good guest and an effective business person, research and briefly report, by Wednesday evening, on cultural customs you might encounter living or working abroad in a specific country or region. Follow up on each piece of advice with a specific example of how you might apply this information to a real living or business situation you might encounter.

Here's what we'll look for in your mini-report:

• document length of about a page, with a memo heading 
• a visually inviting layout featuring an introductory list of the main section headings that will appear in the body of your report
• a clear structure and main point expressed both at the beginning and the end of your report
• application of advice from The Center for Plain Language
• frequent use of specific examples to support general ideas
• correct, readable, and ethical identification of your sources in MLA or APA style
• As you write your mini-report, take care to mention the source of your information before you share it with us. To be specific, identify and frame all quotes and paraphrase from your sources. Turnitin, an originality service Champlain subscribes to, will check every report for documentation of sources and correct use of quote marks around short quotes and blocking of long quotes. 
• You need not use parenthetical documentation or a list of works cited. Your mention of your source before you use it will be both correct and readable. Here's a sample mini-report  (attached) that uses informal documentation to let us know where all of the advice in the report comes from. (Italic type apparently does not survive being linked to these directions, so it's missing in the sample mini-report, above, from the names of websites.

In following MLA style, please italicize the names of books or websites in your mini-report and use quotation marks around the titles of articles. Use italics as well for non-English words you might use in your report.)

You'll see one source of information about how to correctly cite the sources you use at the top of most pages in Canvas. It's the Library tab. Here's how to use it:

• Click on Library.
• Choose "Get citation help" from the drop-down menu.
• You'll see "In-text Citation Basics" in the second blue line if you scroll down the page a few inches. 

Please notice that, in all three examples, correct citation means that the writer mentions (aka "cites") the source of the information before using it!

If, after receiving advice from others on documentation of sources and layout, you choose to revise your mini-report, I'll be glad to use your revision when I apply the rubric summarizing the requirements for success with this assignment.

 

A report based on personal experience 

Alternately, if you have lived outside the United States, please feel free to share your first-hand advice on how visitors and business people should behave, for everyone's benefit.

As above, here's what we'll look for in your mini-report:

• document length of about a page, with a memo heading
• a visually inviting layout
• a clear structure and main point expressed both at the beginning and the end of your report
• application of advice from The Center for Plain Language
• frequent use of specific examples to support general ideas

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