CLASS PAPER: The basic paper is on how you would structure part of an Aviation Safety program for a commercial airline or government agency. The paper is intended to cause you to do some research as well as demonstrate your thinking and writing skills. The paper will be graded approximately 50% for aviation safety content and 50% for style and grammar. This is a 400-level class and your writing will be graded at the college senior level. For Aviation Safety Content: You cannot design part of a safety program in a vacuum. So first describe what do you consider the most pressing (one or two) safety problems in aviation today? Your paper should fully describe each problem and why it is a serious safety problem. Then, continue your paper by describing how you would design a safety program element, which will ameliorate these problems from a company point of view. NOTE: This is not a paper about what the Federal Aviation Administration is doing to fix a problem. It is a paper about what an operator must implement at the sub-program and process level. Style and Grammar: You must use a style guide for your writing. You get to pick which one you want to use (or one may be proscribed for you). Use the style guide to help you organize the context of the paper, not just for properly documenting your source material. Consistent use of a style improves the readability of your paper, and more importantly it helps you to be a better writer. Grammar, punctuation, spelling and word use must all reflect college level work. If paper is in APA format: For questions concerning references or citations within the paper students should consult the American Psychological Association?s Publication Manual, fifth edition, or the APA web site at www.apa.org as a guide for formatting. Another useful site is http://www.apastyle.org Other Key Criteria: -- Target ten pages, not to exceed 13 pages. This page requirement is exclusive of title pages, abstracts, end notes or references cited as required by your style guide. -- Use of graphics must pass the common sense rule, i.e., this is a research-oriented paper, not a comic book; graphics must support the ideas being presented in the paper''s text. Overuse of graphics will detract from your grade and does not count in fulfilling the page requirement. -- Papers are due at the end of the 10th week (shown on the Class Schedule). Papers are submitted electronically using the Private Mail or Dropbox functions of Blackboard. -- A paper that is turned in late may, at the instructor?s discretion, be down graded one letter grade for each week the paper is late. -- This paper is worth 25% of your final grade. This is a big portion of your overall grade and you need to treat it as such.