This guide is for BUSI 419 Week 7 Position Paper, start to submission. A 750 to 1,200-word paper that uses the NQF website to critically analyze Six Sigma's DMAIC process and gives an expert opinion on a quality team's three-way debate.
BUSI 419 is Management of Quality Improvement and Outcomes, 3 credit hours, in Liberty University's BS in Healthcare Administration. Canvas and the course guide file print the code as BUSI419; it is the same course.
| Course | BUSI 419 Management of Quality Improvement and Outcomes |
|---|---|
| Module/Week | 7 |
| Points | 150 points |
| Length | 750 to 1,200 words |
| Sources | The National Quality Forum website and scholarly sources |
| Faith integration | Not required by the guide |
| Format | Current APA paper |
What BUSI 419 Week 7 Position Paper asks for
You access the National Quality Forum (NQF) website and critically analyze the DMAIC process central to Six Sigma in a 750 to 1,200-word paper in current APA. As a quality improvement specialist, you give an expert opinion on a debate among members of a quality improvement team who have formed 3 distinct positions. It is due in Module/Week 7 with Lighter chapter 7. Worth 150 points.
Where it fits in BUSI 419
In the published schedule, Position Paper is one of 10 graded written assignments in BUSI 419. It follows Week 7 Discussion Board Forum 7 and comes before Week 8 Discussion Board Forum 8. The same week also has Discussion Board Forum 7, so plan the week's writing together.
How BUSI 419 Week 7 Position Paper is graded
Liberty grades Position Paper with the rubric attached to the assignment in Canvas, worth 150 points in the published guide. That is about 15% of the course's 1,010 points. Read the rubric first. Each row is a criterion, and the wording of the highest column is the closest thing you have to a model answer.
Course grades in BUSI 419 use Liberty's point scale: an A is 900 to 1010 points of the course total. Missing the length or source minimum usually costs points on several rows at once, which is why the checklist below starts with them.
Timing in the published guide: Each course module/week (except Module/Week 1) begins on Tuesday morning at 12:00 a.m. (ET) and ends on Monday night at 11:59 p.m. (ET). The final module/week ends at 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Friday. Check the due dates in your Canvas section, which govern.
The BUSI 419 Week 7 method, step by step
Turn the instructions into an outline
Start from the assignment instructions in Canvas. Every element the Position Paper instructions name becomes a heading in your outline, in the order given, and the rubric rows tell you how deep each one has to go.
Narrow the topic until it fits the length
Size the topic to the length (750 to 1,200 words). A focused question about one population, policy or problem gives you room to analyze; a broad survey leaves room only to describe.
Collect sources before drafting
Find the sources first: The National Quality Forum website and scholarly sources. Use the Jerry Falwell Library databases, filter to peer-reviewed, and keep a table of author, year, design and finding so the paper is built from evidence instead of padded with it later.
Write a thesis that the sections prove
Draft the thesis before the body. A BUSI 419 paper reads as organized when each heading answers part of the thesis, and as a list of facts when it does not.
Draft section by section, analysis first
Write each section to answer its rubric row, then add the analysis: what the evidence means, where sources disagree, and what follows for practice. Description supports the analysis; it cannot replace it.
Format and check against the rubric
Apply current APA (title page, running format, headings, in-text citations matched to the reference list) and then read the paper once against the rubric, row by row, before you submit.
A structure for BUSI 419 Week 7 Position Paper
Word targets are planning numbers for about 1,200 words of body text, set by the length in the guide; the rubric decides where to spend more.
| Section | What it must do | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction and your position | The debate and your expert opinion. | ~170 words |
| DMAIC explained | Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control. | ~260 words |
| The three positions | Each, fairly stated and evaluated. | ~430 words |
| Evidence from NQF and research | Measures and results. | ~190 words |
| Conclusion | Your recommendation to the team. | ~140 words |
A topic angle that works
State your position in the first paragraph and then evaluate each of the team's three positions in turn, granting what each gets right. An expert opinion that dismisses two positions in a sentence reads as weaker than one that weighs them.
Model paragraph with notes
An original paragraph written by our desk to show the register that earns full rubric credit. It is study material: learn the moves, then write your own.
The second position, that DMAIC's Measure phase is too slow for urgent safety problems, is partly right. Collecting baseline data can take weeks, and a team facing a cluster of falls cannot wait. But the Control phase answers the deeper concern: improvements made without measurement tend to fade, and NQF-endorsed measures such as falls with injury per 1,000 patient days give the team a ready-made metric that shortens the Measure phase.1
- Grants the position's point.
- Answers it with DMAIC and NQF.
- A balanced judgment.
Mistakes that cost points on BUSI 419 Week 7
- Over 1,200 words.
- Not using the NQF website.
- Ignoring one of the three positions.
Checklist before you submit
- Length: 750 to 1,200 words
- Sources: The National Quality Forum website and scholarly sources
- Title page and reference page in current APA format
- Headings follow the order of the instructions
- Each rubric row read against the section that answers it
Questions students ask
How long is the BUSI 419 position paper?
750 to 1,200 words in current APA.
How many points is BUSI 419 Week 7 Position Paper worth?
150 points in Liberty's published course guide for BUSI 419, out of a course total of 1,010 points (about 15% of the grade). The rubric attached to the assignment in Canvas shows how those points are divided.
Is BUSI 419 Week 7 the same in every section of BUSI 419?
This guide follows Liberty's published course guide for BUSI 419. Liberty notes that course content can change from term to term, so if your Canvas section shows different instructions, a different week or different points, follow Canvas and your instructor.
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