In this course, you will complete a scholarly analysis of research in emotional, social, and cognitive intelligence in organizational leadership. You will use your research to write a synthesis essay and develop an action plan for emotional, social, and cognitive intelligence in leadership development.
A synthesis is a written analysis that draws on multiple sources. In writing syntheses, relationships among sources are inferred. In an academic synthesis, you make explicit the relationships that you have inferred among separate sources. The thesis of a synthesis essay is debatable. It makes a proposition about which reasonable people could disagree, and any two writers working with the same source materials could conceive of and support other, opposite theses.
The final assignment will require you to write a synthesis essay which brings together ideas and data from multiple sources in order to inform your leadership development in the context of emotional, social, and cognitive intelligence.
Writing this essay will require you to:
- Look for connections among the ideas throughout the modules.
- Develop a thesis statement and main points which make an informative claim of why it is necessary to understand emotional, social, and cognitive intelligence in leadership and how to apply knowledge of those intelligences in furthering our leadership development.
- Synthesize information from your sources to support and explain your main points.
Your goal will be to effectively and accurately synthesize the source material in order to inform your action plan for leadership development that incorporates emotional, social, and cognitive intelligence. A secondary goal will be to integrate and document sources correctly.
Requirements
Your submission should follow current APA documentation guidelines, including font, spacing, margins, in-text citations, and a references page. The assignment should be no more than 12 pages (not including title page, references, and appendices). For APA guidance, see APA Style (Hunt Library).Links to an external site.
At least eight (8) sources are required outside of the required textbooks, articles, and videos in the modules. Your sources must be from scholarly publications, professional or trade sources, academic books or book chapters, conference proceedings, government documents, theses, and dissertations. Utilize the Hunt Library to search for sources.