Term Paper Assignment: Approximately 5-7 typed, double-spaced pages,
based on academic research.
Include in your analysis of the issue:
 What is your experience relating to the research
 How does the research relate to your organization
 What can your company and or HR department improve based on the research
 Challenges for the future
Suggested Resources
 Workforce.com

 Harvard Business Review
 Forbes.com

 SHRM.com

Grammar and punctuation
• Use complete sentences. Make sure each sentence has a subject and a verb to form an
independent clause.
• Avoid run-on sentences by separating the independent clauses in your writing with a
coordinating conjunction.
• Use a comma before a coordinating conjunction joining independent clauses and between
all items in a series.
• Be consistent in choosing the tense, mood, and voice of verbs.
• Subject nouns and pronouns must agree with the verb form.
• A common error is using a plural noun or pronoun with a singular subject because we are
trying to avoid gender-specific pronouns. For example, we might say “That employee
enrolled in training to improve their likelihood of promotion.” We could say instead,
“That employee enrolled in training to improve the likelihood of promotion.”
• Do not use contractions.
• Follow the rules for singular and plural possessives.
• Learn to recognize and hyphenate compound modifiers and compound phrases.
Editing and proofreading
• Use spell-check and proofread. Review your writing out loud. Sometimes you will hear
problems in the text that you do not identify by reading. Ask someone else to read your
paper in order to identify those places where the text may be improved.
• Read for clarity and simplicity. In many cases two sentences are more appropriate than
one complex sentence with two concepts.
• Review every sentence in your paper and ask yourself, “How can I write this to express
my thought more clearly and with improved vocabulary?” Write clearly and concisely