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is an important part of the US energy portfolio because they provide reliable power 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  They are considered part of the base load power because of this.  Green energy cannot be base load because of its limitations. US Coal Power Energy

For this assignment, you are an energy advisor that must present a recommendation of the future of coal.  Two of your consultants have their opinions below. US Coal Power Energy

Read the following articles and use the creative middle ground approach to discuss the future of coal fired power plants.

• Pro Coal US Coal Power Energy
• Anti Coal

For your submission you will need to provide your own thoughts on the assignment but in third person.  Here is a guide to writing in third person as well as an excellent guide on mistakes to avoid in any type of writing. Engineering and Ethics

• How to write in Third person
• 7 Common Mistakes Common Mistakes writing in APA

Generally, you will use outside materials to support your point.  For instance, in this assignment, you obviously will be using a code of ethics as an outside source.  Whenever you use other materials you need to either paraphrase that material or quote it.  However, you are not supposed to quote large chunks of the material.  Here are two guides on paraphrasing and quoting: Engineering and Ethics

• Computer Science Research Guide – Quoting and Paraphrasing
• The Writing Center

Also, when you use outside materials, you need to let the reader know what materials were used, so if they want to look up more information, they can.  This process of letting the reader know what materials are used involves two steps: citing and reference.  The citing is done inside the paper or PowerPoint slide and tells the reader which reference is used on the reference page or slide.  The reference is all the information the reader needs to go find that resource.

There are some standards which organizations and publishers use for referring to these materials so that what they publish is uniform.  For instance, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a popular organization for computer science and information systems.  They have their own ‘style guide,’ which includes the standards for writing in that organization and for others in computer science.  The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) style guide is often used by electrical engineers.  The American Psychological Association (APA) style guide is a standard for the liberal arts.  Grantham, as a whole, uses this as the standard for all of their general education and many other courses.  In this class, you are free to use the ACM, IEEE, or APA way for referencing your materials.  Here are some links to show you how to cite and reference the materials in any of the three formats:

• Computer Science Research Guide – Writing and Citing
• Computer Science Research Guide – Examples
• How to easily reference APA with Microsoft Word

For your submission, choose ONE of the following ways to answer the above questions.

NOTE: In identifying the similarities and differences, you should provide at least a few sentences which explain each of the similarities or differences

1. Write a one-to-two-page paper (not including title page or references, submit as a Word document).  Use Times New Roman or Calibri, font size 12, one-inch margins, double-spaced.  Don’t forget to cite inside the paper.  Be sure to include references at the end.