Causal Analysis Wrap Up

What is the correct in-text citation?

Leaders who lack emotional and social competence undoubtedly can become a liability to organizations, directly leading to employee disengagement, absenteeism, stress-disability claims, hostile-workplace lawsuits, and increased health care expenses ( ? ).

Source Information • Document type: Journal article (Section 10.1) • Authors: Kenneth Nowack and Paul Zak • Publication year: 2020 • Article title: Empathy enhancing antidotes for interpersonally toxic leaders • Journal information: C onsulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, Volume 72, Issue 2, pages 119–133 • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/cpb0000164 Your paraphrased sentence and parenthetical in-text citati

• (Nowack, Kenneth)

• (Nowack & Zak, 2020)

• (Zak, 2020)

• (Consulting Psychology, 2020)

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Paraphrase this Sentence:

Leaders who lack emotional and social competence undoubtedly can become a liability to organizations, directly leading to employee disengagement, absenteeism, stress-disability claims, hostile-workplace lawsuits, and increased health care expenses.

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Create an APA Reference list entry based on this information:

Document type: Journal article (Section 10.1) • Authors: Katharina Bernecker and Jule Kramer • Publication year: 2020 • Article title: Implicit theories about willpower are associated with exercise levels during the academic examination period • Journal information: Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology, Volume 9, Issue 2, pages 216–231 • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/spy0000182

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CCSS.RI.3.5

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Why is a Causal Analysis Important?

• Examines critical aspects of a specific issue, event, or phenomenon to determine the primary causes or effects.

• Helps identify causes of selected outcomes, so we can take action to improve process performance

• Determines how various phenomenon are related.

• It can permit better forecasting of the outcomes of various actions taken in response to an event, issue, or phenomenon.

Why can we only talk about one specific topic for a causal analysis, rather than one big topic and subcategories?

Would a personal anecdote that relates to our topic be considered evidence?

• Yes.

• No.

• Maybe so.

• Yes, but you may need to include additional academic support to your anecdotal evidence (i.e. expert interviews, statistics, studies, etc.).

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How do you know you have a good topic [for the Causal Analysis]?

What makes a causal analysis unique from informative and argument essays?

• Genre and Subgenre

• They are all the same.

How do I write a conclusion for a Causal Analysis?

Here is a sample conclusion. This sample or any conclusion from the causal analyses in your book are excellent models.

Use the drawing tool to highlight/underline the key points the author synthesized from the article. Use a different color to highlight the big SO WHAT.

Do causal analyses typically have more references than other types of essays?

• Yes.

• Depends.

• No.

• We need references?

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