The overall purpose of this paper is to emphasize the application of social capital to your professional and personal life, there is one major paper required for ORG 6515. To make the final paper more manageable, it has been sub-divided into two deliverables. The outline due this week is Deliverable 1. The final draft of the paper due during Week 6 is Deliverable 2. Both of these deliverables needs to conform to APA style, including a cover page, in-text citations, and a reference page. Remember to integrate the articles you found during week 2 (annotated bibliographies).

Deliverable 1: Write a 3-5 page outline of your paper in the format of a sentence outline.

Your outline should include the following six sections:

Statement of purpose. In a sentence or two, describe the purpose of the paper.

Central thesis. Discuss specifics of your orientation to social capital and explain how the concept of social capital relates to your professional and personal life. You should include relevant literature and integrate citations in your discussion.

Audit of your organization or circumstances for social capital. This is an audit on the professional context in which you experience social capital. It should include specifics about this topic in your setting, sub-systems, norms, culture, and your position in a network that may also include social capital outside the organization’s boundaries.

Self-audit of social capital. Conduct a self-assessment that analyzes your social capital in a personal sense. It should include but not be limited to your emotional intelligence and the congruence between your behavior and attitudes about social capital as you experience it and your ethical standards and core values. For example, is your “real world” interpersonal style trusting and collaborative? How do you resolve dilemmas about social capital when you seem caught in a social capital setting or network that runs contrary to your value system? After your self-analysis, the emphasis of the paper should be a realistic social capital game plan to get from where you are now to where you want to be. Although this assignment requires APA Style, APA allows first person writing for personal accounts and personal journals. Students are expected to discuss the self assessment in this section of the paper in a personal sense.

Evaluation and metrics. This section of the paper is the development of signposts, metrics, and a plan to evaluate your progress in acquiring, or perhaps decreasing, your social capital. In addition to an assessment plan, keep in mind that indicators of your progress can be either quantitative, qualitative, or both. Emphasis on the convergent validity of your assessment should emphasize multiple measures and, ideally, multiple methods of social capital evaluation.

Conclusions. Beginning with the outline presented in Part I, this assignment should integrate course learning, including but not limited to the central themes from the textbooks and discussions. Keep in mind that the major purpose of the conclusion section is to integrate the course content and to demonstrate your mastery of the course material. It is important to emphasize throughout the development of your paper that it should have face validity and practical usefulness to your professional needs. The paper should also be of scholarly quality, properly cited, and in APA formatted.

Remember, too, that the purpose of the Outline of Final Paper is to provide a mechanism for receiving initial feedback about your paper. Understandably, details in the Outline of Final Paper will lean toward brevity.