The White Paper Summary of the Assignment:   Task:  In this paper, you will write a document that provides information that an audience can use to inform a decision. White papers can be any one of the following types:  o technical papers o business benefit papers o advocacy papers o hybrid technical/business papers   Length:  2000 words  Graphics: at least three graphics, two of which have to be original  Format in Citing and Listing Sources:  APA  Number and of Sources:  at least five sources, at least one of which has to be obtained through OneSearch.   Brief Description of the White Paper:   the paper is written to a specific decision-maker about a specific problem in your workplace or community and recommends a specific course of action.it will be a white paper to an internal audience – written to individuals within an organization you work for or are a part of.  The white paper will inform them about a trend in the field and/or to solve a problem in the organization.   Strategies to Consider for the White Paper:  Please follow these guidelines:   have a focused topic.  write to an identified audience   o if your white paper is to an internal audience, it might have a fairly narrow audience.  For example, if you work in a hair salon and write a white paper promoting a new billing system for your salon, the audience will probably be the owner and manager of the hair salon. o  make sure that you do not directly tell the audience what action it should take.  Rather, offer background information that the audience can use to make a decision.   How to Organize the White Paper: Please include the following sections in your white paper:  Executive Summary  Introduction  Previous Approaches  New Findings  Conclusion  References  In the Executive Summary, summarize your research and your purpose.  The executive summary should be a stand-alone document.  It should be written in such a way that a busy executive could read the executive summary and know exactly what the paper is about without reading the rest of the paper. In the Introduction, you lay the groundwork for your readers for the details that will be introduced in the white paper. If you need to define any terms, you will do so here.  You might share an anecdote or illustration to describe why this topic is important. In the Previous Approaches section, you will describe the approaches or strategies that have been previously used or are currently used on the topic.  For example, if your white paper is being written to advertise a new taxi service in your area, you might review what transportation services are provided now.  You could show the challenges or problems that the current services involve.  In this section of the white paper, your use of sources will be very important.  You should integrate research to show that the problems you have identified exist.     In the New Findings section, you present perhaps the most important information in the paper.  In this section, you will describe the findings of your research and relate these findings to the purpose of your report.  You will not only provide data and research, but you will also explain the data and research and why it is relevant to your report’s topic. For example, if your white paper is being written to advertise a new taxi service in your area, you might review what transportation services are provided now and show why the new taxi service fills a need that the current set of transportation services does not fill or solves a problem that the current set of transportation services does not solve.  You will provide data and evidence for why the new taxi service has promise in solving the problems you have identified. In this section of the white paper, your use of sources will be very important as well.  You should integrate research to show that the problems you have identified will be solved by your new approach. In the Conclusion section, you review what your research shows in light of the previous approaches used.  You will not tell the audience what steps to take next.  However, you will summarize what your findings articulate. In the References, you will list your sources that you cited in the paper.  You will list them in APA format.  Please note that the lectures on white papers that you have viewed and examples of white papers you may have read may not have used APA format.  You will be using APA format in this assignment. You are required to have at least five sources for your paper.  In addition, at least one of them is to have been acquired through OneSearch.  Primary sources will be very beneficial for the paper.  For example, if your white paper is being written to advertise a new taxi service in your area, you might interview some local residents about the problems they have with the current transportation services in the area.  The information in such interviews would be persuasive research to integrate into your white paper.     Length of the Paper:    Your white paper should be 2000 words in length.  Again, you are required to use at least five sources, with at least one of them being acquired through OneSearch. Graphics:   Your white paper should incorporate at least three graphics. Graphic can include tables, charts, or graphs showing some research findings.  They can also be images that are relevant to the topic of the white paper. At least two of the graphics must be original.  Original graphics can include photos taken by you or tables, charts, or graphs developed by you