Example of Report and its content

A)   Example Reports (2 examples) – Use as a “go-by” for formatting your own project report – all reports MUST have the following: (1) professional cover (2) transmittal letter (3) table of contents (4) introduction (5) Site and Area Review – May be broken into 2 sections – one discussing the neighborhood characteristics – visibility, access, etc. and the second discussing demographics, airport stats, etc.  (6) Lodging Supply and Demand Analysis (ends witih projection of average daily rate and occupancy for YOUR proposed hotel (7) Financial Analysis.

B)  Comp Supply interview (2 examples) – typical forms to be used when interviewing hotel GM’s, Directors of Sales, etc.

C)  Example proposal – shows how work is outlined and job is proposed to a client (the bid)

D)  Fee estimate worksheet – very simplistic way of arriving at fee to be quoted to client – per person using hourly billing rates

E)  Project links and websites – various sources for data – heavy emphasis on data for area review section

HFT 6476 – Class Project – On-Line Spring B 2012
Note: This is FICTITOUS PROJECT
OK – ONE MORE TIME – THIS IS ALL ‘MAKE BELIEVE’!!!!!
 Development site to be evaluated: You are to choose a vacant development site in an area that is easily accessible to you. The development site must be suitable for hotel development (based on a quick look). If you cannot locate a vacant site, choose an existing site (not a hotel) with a building that you will ASSUME will be demolished to make way for the hotel that is your project topic.
 Your client is the LENDER on the project – The First National Bank of Boca Raton. Your contact will be (address all correspondence to) Ms. Concerned Client, First National Bank of Boca Raton, One Blue Skies Avenue, Boca Raton, FL, Keep in mind that Ms. Client is NOT the developer of the project – she is the head due diligence person at the bank that is going
to loan the money to the developer to build the project. Your obligation, as a consultant, is to let the bank know about whether this will be a good loan.
 New hotel (at the location YOU chose nearby to YOU) will open on January 1, 2014. Plans include:
 120 guest rooms
 Planned average daily rate, based on the developer’s pro-forma of about $125 (current value dollars)
 4,000 square feet of meeting space
 Restaurant – Bistro type (casual or linen table service depending on the meal period) 6 AM to midnight (100 seats).
 Pool and outside patio area
 Developer is planning to develop the hotel as a relatively new concept – Andaz by Hyatt. You must be aware of this and factor it you’re your projections – i.e. include appropriate franchise fees for the brand, etc.
 Hotel is to be operated by a very well known and respected management company – Top Notch Lodging – so you can assume it will be very professionally managed.
 Total estimated cost of the development including purchase of the land is $9.6 million ($80,000 PER UNIT). Developer is looking for the bank to loan him 60% of the TOTAL cost.
Repeat – PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT YOUR CLIENT IS THE BANK… IF THIS IS A BAD DEAL – I.E. NOT A GOOD LOAN FOR THEM TO MAKE, THEY WANT TO HEAR ABOUT IT.

Welcome to Module 2!

Kindly expand on questionnaire for interviewing at hotels and present your changes here. You can find a sample of this under Supplemental Materials. (note- Please post this no later than week (Module) 2 Thursday/students must respond on 2 different days of the week to other’s discussion points and also respond to any comments made about their OWN post.)

For this final discussion, you will compare and contrast readings within this course. You will choose one poem and one fiction story, then discuss how they cater to the reader.  To help with this assignment, think about the literary devices, elements, and themes you learned in the course.

Instructions

(Only use the fiction stories and poems you read since June 21st)

• Pick only one fiction story and poem
• What were your thoughts when you read it?
• What literary devices or elements did the author use?
• How can you compare and constrast the chosen pieces?
• Respond in two paragraphs and provide evidence
• Respect your peers’ work and do not plagiarize

Preparing for the Journal

Watch the Voice & Syntax PowerPoints and read/annotate the Voice & Syntax poems before beginning this response.

 Completing the Journal

Section 1:  Initial Response

Read both the voice and syntax poems.

For each poem, write a 1-2 sentence quick response.  Don’t think too hard about it, just write down your thoughts immediately after you complete each poem.

Bullet point or number the sentences to make them easier to read.

Section 2:  Window/Mirror Response

A window/mirror response is all about empathy.  In a window/mirror response, you write about a poem that gave you a look into someone else’s life experiences (window) OR reflected your own life experiences (mirror). Sometimes, a poem can do both!

Choose 1 of the poems. (I suggest using one of the ones you wrote about for the initial response.)  If you are writing a window response, discuss what this poem showed you about someone else’s life experiences and then talk about how the poem made you feel. If you are writing a mirror response, discuss why this poem reminded you of your own experiences and then talk about how the poem made you feel. If a poem did both, you are welcome to discuss that as well.

Your window/mirror response should be at least 1 developed paragraph (5-7 sentences) in length.

Section 3:  Analytical Response

Choose 1 of the poems we read this week.  (You can use the one you wrote about for the window/mirror response or you can choose a different poem.)  Then, choose at least 1 of the poetic devices we went over in the PowerPoints:

• voice
• persona
• tone
• syntax
• rhythm
• diction
• physical appearance
• denotation/connotation

Where does the author use the device in the poem?  Include a couple of examples, including at least 1 direct quote from the poem.  (To see how to clearly format a quote from a poem, click here  Download click here.)  How does the device connect to the poem’s meaning?

For more helpful prewriting questions, look at the Analyzing a Poem  Download Analyzing a Poemworksheet.

Your analytical response should be at least 1 developed paragraph (5-7 sentences) in length.

Sample Journal

To see a sample journal entry, click the link above.  Your own journal entries don’t have to look exactly like it, but the sample will give you an idea of what I’m looking for in the poetry journals.

Expectations for the Journal

1. In this journal, you will not be graded on grammar, punctuation, format, or structure.  Its purpose is to help you to think about the poems in a low-stress format.
2. You will receive full credit as long as you make an honest attempt to answer the prompts and meet the stated length requirement.
3. If there is anything else you want to write in addition to the given questions, feel free to do so!
4. Journal entries should consist of your original thoughts and words.  Outside sources should be kept to a minimum:  I want to hear what YOU think! If you do use any outside sources to help you, they must be credited by giving a link to each source. Word-for-word borrowings should be put in quote marks and the source credited in-text.  Outside sources are not required for journals.

Submitting the Journal

Writing journals may be submitted as

• text box entries
• attached Word files
• photos of a paper journal (include a readable photo of each page written)
• links to an online file

Use the method which is most comfortable for you.  The only method not allowed is a video or audio recording:  As this is a writing journal, written responses must be submitted.

Purpose

Often, you don’t really process your feelings about a work until you write down your thoughts about it.  Journaling is stress-free, as you will earn full credit as long as you reply thoughtfully to the readings and meet the length requirement.  You can choose whatever written method (Word file, text box, paper journal, etc.) you choose:  The process is what’s important.  Through your journals, you’ll have a chance to think deeply but write freely about what you’re seeing in the works, and that will help you with assignments that require greater levels of analysis, like the papers.

Preparing for the Journal

Watch the Symbolism & Theme PowerPoints and read/annotate the Symbolism & Theme poems before beginning this response.

Completing the Journal

Section 1:  Initial Response

Read both of this week’s poems.

For each poem, write a 1-2 sentence quick response.  Don’t think too hard about it, just write down your thoughts immediately after you complete each poem.

Section 2:  Window/Mirror Response

A window/mirror response is all about empathy.  In a window/mirror response, you write about a poem that gave you a look into someone else’s life experiences (window) OR reflected your own life experiences (mirror). Sometimes, a poem can do both!

Choose 1 of the poems we read this week. (I suggest using one of the ones you wrote about for the initial response.)  If you are writing a window response, discuss what this poem showed you about someone else’s life experiences and then talk about how the poem made you feel. If you are writing a mirror response, discuss why this poem reminded you of your own experiences and then talk about how the poem made you feel. If a poem did both, you are welcome to discuss that as well.

Your window/mirror response should be at least 1 developed paragraph (5-7 sentences) in length.

Section 3:  Analytical Response

Choose 1 of the poems we read this week.  (You can use the one you wrote about for the window/mirror response or you can choose a different poem.)  Then, choose at least 1 of the poetic devices we went over in this week’s PowerPoints:

• symbols (these may be universal, conventional, or unconventional)
• allegory
• myth
• allusion

Note: theme isn’t listed here because you are connecting these devices to the meaning of the poem, and the theme IS the meaning of the poem.

Where does the author use the device in the poem?  Include at least 1 direct quote from the poem.  (To see how to clearly format a quote from a poem, click here.)  How does the device connect to the poem’s meaning?

For more helpful prewriting questions, look at the Analyzing a Poemworksheet.

Your analytical response should be at least 1 developed paragraph (5-7 sentences) in length.

Sample Journal 

To see a sample journal entry, click the link above.  Your own journal entries don’t have to look exactly like it, but the sample will give you an idea of what I’m looking for in the poetry journals.

Expectations for the Journal

1. In this journal, you will not be graded on grammar, punctuation, format, or structure.  Its purpose is to help you to think about the poems in a low-stress format.
2. You will receive full credit as long as you make an honest attempt to answer the prompts and meet the stated length requirement.
3. If there is anything else you want to write in addition to the given questions, feel free to do so!
4. Journal entries should consist of your original thoughts and words.  Outside sources should be kept to a minimum:  I want to hear what YOU think! If you do use any outside sources to help you, they must be credited by giving a link to each source. Word-for-word borrowings should be put in quote marks and the source credited in-text.  Outside sources are not required for journals.

Submitting the Journal

Writing journals may be submitted as

• text box entries
• attached Word files
• photos of a paper journal (include a readable photo of each page written)
• links to an online file

Use the method which is most comfortable for you.  The only method not allowed is a video or audio recording:  As this is a writing journal, written responses must be submitted.

Purpose

Often, you don’t really process your feelings about a work until you write down your thoughts about it.  Journaling is stress-free, as you will earn full credit as long as you reply thoughtfully to the readings and meet the length requirement.  You can choose whatever written method (Word file, text box, paper journal, etc.) you choose:  The process is what’s important.  Through your journals, you’ll have a chance to think deeply but write freely about what you’re seeing in the works, and that will help you with assignments that require greater levels of analysis, like the papers.

Preparing for the Journal

Watch the Sound & Form PowerPoints and read/annotate the Sound & Form poems before beginning this response.

Completing the Journal

Section 1:  Initial Response

Read both of this week’s poems.

For each poem, write a 1-2 sentence quick response.  Don’t think too hard about it, just write down your thoughts immediately after you complete each poem.

Section 2:  Window/Mirror Response

A window/mirror response is all about empathy.  In a window/mirror response, you write about a poem that gave you a look into someone else’s life experiences (window) OR reflected your own life experiences (mirror). Sometimes, a poem can do both!

Choose 1 of the poems we read this week. (I suggest using one of the ones you wrote about for the initial response.)  If you are writing a window response, discuss what this poem showed you about someone else’s life experiences and then talk about how the poem made you feel. If you are writing a mirror response, discuss why this poem reminded you of your own experiences and then talk about how the poem made you feel. If a poem did both, you are welcome to discuss that as well.

Your window/mirror response should be at least 1 developed paragraph (5-7 sentences) in length.

Section 3:  Analytical Response

Choose 1 of the poems we read this week.  (You can use the one you wrote about for the window/mirror response or you can choose a different poem.)  Then, choose at least 1 of the poetic devices we went over in this week’s PowerPoints:

• meter (including stress and foot)
• euphony
• cacophony
• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• assonance
• line structure (including end-stopped, run-on, and/or caesura)
• rhyme (including imperfect rhymes, eye rhymes, and/or internal rhymes)
• rhyme schemes

Where does the author use the device in the poem?  Include at least 1 direct quote from the poem.  (To see how to clearly format a quote from a poem, click here.)  How does the device connect to the poem’s meaning?

For more helpful prewriting questions, look at the Analyzing a Poemworksheet.

Your analytical response should be at least 1 developed paragraph (5-7 sentences) in length.

Sample Journal 

To see a sample journal entry, click the link above.  Your own journal entries don’t have to look exactly like it, but the sample will give you an idea of what I’m looking for in the poetry journals.

Expectations for the Journal

1. In this journal, you will not be graded on grammar, punctuation, format, or structure.  Its purpose is to help you to think about the poems in a low-stress format.
2. You will receive full credit as long as you make an honest attempt to answer the prompts and meet the stated length requirement.
3. If there is anything else you want to write in addition to the given questions, feel free to do so!
4. Journal entries should consist of your original thoughts and words.  Outside sources should be kept to a minimum:  I want to hear what YOU think! If you do use any outside sources to help you, they must be credited by giving a link to each source. Word-for-word borrowings should be put in quote marks and the source credited in-text.  Outside sources are not required for journals.

Submitting the Journal

Writing journals may be submitted as

• text box entries
• attached Word files
• photos of a paper journal (include a readable photo of each page written)
• links to an online file

Use the method which is most comfortable for you.  The only method not allowed is a video or audio recording:  As this is a writing journal, written responses must be submitted.

Purpose

Often, you don’t really process your feelings about a work until you write down your thoughts about it.  Journaling is stress-free, as you will earn full credit as long as you reply thoughtfully to the readings and meet the length requirement.  You can choose whatever written method (Word file, text box, paper journal, etc.) you choose:  The process is what’s important.  Through your journals, you’ll have a chance to think deeply but write freely about what you’re seeing in the works, and that will help you with assignments that require greater levels of analysis, like the papers.

Instructions

• Find a credible source that describes Sylvia Plath. (Include your findings in your response below) DO NOT USE WIKIPEDIA!!!!!
• Read the poem “Lady Lazarus” by Sylvia Plath (Links to an external site.)
• Listen to the interview, Sylvia Plath: What Made You Stay (YouTube)
• Compare and Contrast the poem Lady Lazarus and Sylvia Plath: What Made You Stay
• Read the prompt below and then respond in one paragraph (No format needed. Any font ONLY size 12)

Prompt

How does Plath help her audience visualize her emotions?  After listening to the interview, are you able to detect Plath’s personal pain and struggles? Last, why does her poetry sound powerful?

In this discussion, you will pick four poems and exchange conversations with peers.  Describe the poetic element and give your summary of the poems.  Was it boring, interesting, sentimental, too short, or “just okay?”

Liberty Needs Glasses by Tupac Shakur (Links to an external site.)

All The World’s A Stage by William Shakespeare (Links to an external site.)

Preparing for the Journal

1. Read the six fiction stories for this journal response
2. As you read each short story jot down your responses to these questions
   • Did you like or dislike the story? Why?
   • Does it remind you of any of your own experiences?  Which ones?
   • Did it influence your thoughts and/or feelings? How?
   • What do you think the story is really trying to say about life, people, and/or society? What small clues in the story led you to these ideas?
   • Overall, how did the story make you feel?

Completing the Journal

1. Choose at least three questions from above. Write at least a 1-2 sentence response to each of the short fiction. Use the questions above to help you develop your writing.  
2. Then, choose just 1 of the short stories and write a response to it that is at least 1 developed paragraph (5-7 sentences) in length.

Expectations for the Journal

1. In this journal, you will not be graded on grammar, punctuation, format, or structure.  Its purpose is to help you to think about the stories in a low-stress format.
2. You will receive full credit as long as you make an honest attempt to answer the prompts and meet the stated length requirement.
3. If there is anything else you want to write in addition to the given questions, feel free to do so!

Submitting the Journal

Writing journals may be submitted as

• text box entries
• attached Word files

Use the method which is most comfortable for you.  The only method not allowed is a video or audio recording:  As this is a writing journal, written responses must be submitted.

Please note that students in online courses who do not submit a Canvas assignment in the first two weeks will be withdrawn as No-Shows.  Students will still have to pay for the course.  Make sure to submit your assignments!

Purpose

Often, you don’t really process your feelings about work until you write down your thoughts about it.  Journaling is stress-free, as you will earn full credit as long as you reply thoughtfully to the films and meet the length requirement.  You can choose whatever written method (Word file, text box, etc.) you choose:  The process is what’s important.  Through your journals, you’ll have a chance to think deeply but write freely about what you’re seeing in the works, and that will help you with assignments that require greater levels of analysis, like the papers.