F520B Short Essay

F520B Short Essay
This assessment target ELO’s:

• 400-SMC-1011.2.1 (F201: U.S. Army Sustainment)

• 400-SMC-1011.2.2 (F202: Strategic Logistics)

• 400-SMC-1011.2.3 (F203: Joint Sustainment)

• 400-SMC-1011.2.4 (F204: Tactical Sustainment)

• 400-SMC-1011.2.5 (F205 Command Post Operations)

Assignment Instructions: Analyze the concepts and theories you read about in F201, F202, F203, F204, and F205; utilizing key language and terms from these concepts and theories, compose a short answer essay to the question prompted below. These essays can be written in MS Word and then copy and paste into Blackboard or you may type your response directly into Blackboard under the assignment instructions. DO NOT ATTACH YOUR WORD DOCUMENT. COPY/PASTE ONLY!

*To ensure that you understand the grading requirements look at SMC-DL 1009W Special for the

short essay.

F520-B Question 1: This assessment targets ELO 400-SMC-1011.2.5 (F205 Command Post

Operations).

Topic of Essay: Construct a substantial essay describing the role of the Operations Sergeants Major in the design, functions, capabilities, personnel, required equipment, and Standard Operating Procedures for a successful, well-functioning CP employment (F205).

Assignment Instructions: Analyze the concepts and theories you read about in F205; utilizing key language and terms from these concepts and theories, construct a substantial essay describing the role of the Operations Sergeant Major in the design, functions, capabilities, personnel, required equipment, and Standard Operating Procedures for a successful well-functioning CP employment (F205).

F520-B Question 2: This assessment targets ELOs 400-SMC-1011.2.2 (F202: Strategic Logistics) and 400-SMC-1011.2.4 (F204: Tactical Sustainment).

Assignment Instructions: Analyze the concepts and theories you read about in F201, F202, F203,

F204, and F205; utilizing key language and terms from these concepts and theories, compose a short answer essay to the question prompted below. These essays can be written in MS Word and then copy and paste into Blackboard or you may type your response directly into Blackboard under the assignment instructions. DO NOT ATTACH YOUR WORD DOCUMENT. COPY/PASTE ONLY!

Topic of Essay: Construct a substantial essay describing the importance of strategic logistics (F202) and how a Sergeant Major leverages these assets in supporting the tactical sustainment (F204) of their unit.

*While there is no minimum word count associated with the questions, the quality of your substantive response will have an impact on the overall score (see 1009W-Special).

A substantive response should include appropriate content knowledge and include support from

The lessons or references used within the lessons. A substantive response should promote an

exciting, vibrant, and demonstrated learning. Good writing depends on good style and good writing for an online environment should be clear, lively, and easy on the eye.

The writing should be:

• Appropriate in tone and language for a wide-ranging audience, from students to specialists;

• Informed, accurate, and balanced;

• Clear, coherent, and easy to understand;

• Mechanically correct and consistent in every respect.

To be appropriate in tone, your writing should:

• Be neutral and factual;

• Use diction appropriate to a general audience;

• Use any editorial conventions and spellings that may be appropriate to a particular field of

specialization;

• Explain specialized or unfamiliar historical terms in cases where using them is necessary;

• Avoid rhetorical flourishes, colloquialisms, and unnecessarily fancy vocabulary;

• Avoid the use of “we” or “our” (unless a reflection exercise)

To be informed, accurate, and balanced, writings should:

• Convey an awareness of the content and its application in your environment (importance).

• Express perspectives on content that reflect contemporary research and discourse about the

subject;

• Cite major sources used in preparing framework materials and give sources for any debatable

statements made about the content;

• Acknowledge briefly in a low-key, neutral manner collection materials that may be offensive to

some readers.

To be clear, coherent, and easy to understand, documents should:

• Use short paragraphs;

• Contain no unnecessary words or sentences;

• Use linking capability to avoid repetition;

• Divide longer responses into separate linked sections, each with a descriptive subheading.

* While there is no minimum word count associated with the questions, the quality of your substantive

response will have an impact on the overall score (see 1009W-Special).

* You have the option of writing this in MSWord and then copy/paste into Blackboard.