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<h1 id="proposal">Proposal</h1>
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<p>Date: November 3, 2024.<br />
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To: Elizabeth Parrish, M.A.<br />
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Director of the Writing Center.<br />
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From: Ramon Medina Student at Tarrant County College.<br />
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Uriel Martinez, Student at Tarrant County College.<br />
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Benjamin Zimmerman, Student at Tarrant County
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College.<br />
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Noah Sanchez, Student at Tarrant County College.<br />
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Subject: Proposal for Making Resources More Accessible at TCC
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Northeast Campus</p>
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<p><strong>Presentation available <a
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href="/static/proposal/presentation.pptx">here</a></strong></p>
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<h2 id="purpose">Purpose</h2>
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<p>Our purpose is to do research as to how to make resources at
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the TCC Northeast campus more accessible to students for their
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academic work.</p>
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<h2 id="summary">Summary</h2>
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<p>On October 15, 2024, Dr. Stuewe requested that we conduct a
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proposal for an issue we want to resolve. The current way to
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access the student resources is not convenient for students at
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Tarrant County College. The current way to access the student
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resources takes too many clicks. By having too many clicks to
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access, students lose interest and do not use the sources
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properly.</p>
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<p>Surely, this is an issue for Tarrant County College students;
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especially for those students who have attention deficits.
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Students will completely ignore the students resources or they
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just would not even know about its existence.</p>
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<p>Therefore, our group wanted to determine the need for easier
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and faster access to the student resource page for Tarrant
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County College students at Northeast Campus. We propose to
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research the need for a user-friendly TCC student access to the
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student source, as well its benefits. To perform these tasks, we
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would perform primary and secondary research.</p>
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<p>Specifically, we developed a plan to perform four tasks: Our
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first task is to research information about how student
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resources can be accessed easily that would benefit the students
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academic development. The second task is to send out an online
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survey to TCC students to determine how they would like the idea
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and what benefit they think is helpful for them. The third task
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is to conduct an interview with the writing center director to
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understand their cost and benefits of this idea. After we have
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gathered our information, we would analyze the collected data
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and prepare a recommendation report.</p>
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<p>Finally, if this proposal is authorized, we will begin our
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research immediately, submitting our proposal to Dr. Stuewe
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October 15, 2024. Then, we would conduct our recommendation
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report, submitting our report to Dr. Stuewe on November 3, 2024.
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Our recommendation report would include all the data of our
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research and recommendations regarding having easier and faster
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access to the student resources for TCC students at the
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Northeast location.</p>
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<h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2>
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<p>October 15, 2024, our class was tasked with creating a
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proposal to resolve an issue or make an improvement for TCC
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Northeast campus.<br />
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The current issue that a lot of students face is the lack of
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accessibility to resources that are provided to the students at
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the Northeast campus. An example of this can be the Writing
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Center at the Northeast campus. The online portion of the North
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East Writing Center allows students to submit their work to the
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center for advisors to peer review the work. Here is how the
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process works:</p>
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<ol type="1">
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<li>Go to the TCC website and search up: learning commons</li>
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<li>Click on the virtual learning commons on canvas</li>
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<li>Then you select which campus you are accessing</li>
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<li>After click on the Writing Center</li>
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<li>Click on TracCloud to upload your documents</li>
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</ol>
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<p>Accessing to the writing center, however, is very complicated
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as it takes students to go out further to access the writing
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center than it should have to be. Rather than having to go
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through all of those clicks and links that students have to
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follow, it should be a whole canvas tile for the students.
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Having a canvas tile for the learning commons will be a lot
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easier to access and make students' time more flexible. This
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does not only apply to the writing center, but other centers
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that the Northeast campus has.</p>
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<p>In order to resolve the issues, we have employed the
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following tasks:</p>
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<ol type="1">
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<li>Conducting research to see how accessible resources for
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students to access is beneficial.</li>
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<li>Get with one of the learning center employees such as the
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writing center and interview them. Interviewing them about the
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idea of having a more accessible way of accessing learning
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commons</li>
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<li>Creating a survey to get an idea of how resources at the
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Northeast campus could be better.</li>
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<li>Analyze and interpret the data that we gathered throughout
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the proposal.</li>
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</ol>
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<h2 id="proposed-tasks">Proposed Tasks</h2>
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<p>With approval from Dr. Stuewe, we will conduct 4 tasks that
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will determine if we can make student resources more
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accessible.</p>
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<p><strong>Task 1</strong>: Research for the benefits of
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accessing resources for education.</p>
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<p>We conducted the research and found a lot of articles
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supporting the benefits of students accessing resources. From
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our findings, we found that students who have easier access to
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their resources boost their interest in the topic of research
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(Newpath Learning). Giving them this boost also encourages the
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students to read the articles that are easy to access (New
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England BOE). The studies clearly show evidence that having
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easier access to resources keeps students engaged which is what
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colleges want.</p>
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<p>We also researched articles that covered university budgeting
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for allowing to have resources provided for the students. From
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our findings, we found that universities place roughly $20
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million dollars on facilities that provide resources to students
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(TopUniversities). This does include the writing center, and the
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online portion of the student resources.</p>
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<p>We concluded that the school provides a lot of funding for
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accessible resources, and that having easier access to resources
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is beneficial.</p>
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<p><strong>Task 2</strong>: Interview with the director of the
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TCC Northeast Writing Center.</p>
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<p>For the interview, these will be the questions that are going
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to be asked: How do you feel about the quality of access to the
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writing center? Would making a canvas tile for the writing
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center be an option that the center is willing to do? Will
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creating a canvas tile dedicated for the writing center be
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beneficial for TCC and TCC students?</p>
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<p><strong>Task 3</strong>: Creating a survey and sending it
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out</p>
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<p>We conducted a survey to ask TCC students at the Northeast
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campus the following: How easy is it to access student resources
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such as the writing center and etc… Would you prefer a better
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way for it to be organized? Would having a canvas tile for
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student resources on canvas be a consideration?</p>
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<p><strong>Task 4</strong>: Analyzing our survey and drawing
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conclusions</p>
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<p>We will meet together to discuss our findings with each
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other. Then we will write our findings down on a separate Google
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doc and summarize the responses. That way we can find a
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correlation to the answers given to us from the TCC students on
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the Northeast campus.</p>
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<h2 id="schedule">Schedule</h2>
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<p>The Gantt chart below shows our task schedule:</p>
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<figure>
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<img src="/static/proposal/schedule.png"
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alt="Gantt chart showing the schedule" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Gantt chart showing the
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schedule</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<h2 id="experience">Experience</h2>
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<p>As TCC students, we understand that the Northeast campus
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provides the resources that it gives to students. However, we
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are aware that finding those resources online can be quite
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tedious and not easy to access like submitting your work to the
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writing center. Frankly, if the accessibility of the resources
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are not there, students will not bother to find those resources
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or lose interest in finding them.</p>
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<h2 id="works-cited">Works Cited</h2>
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<p> - “5 Ways Open Educational Resources Can Help Students
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Succeed This Fall.”, New England Board of Higher Education.
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<em>New England Board of Higher Education</em>, 21 Sept. 2020,
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<a
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href="https://nebhe.org/journal/5-ways-open-educational-resources-can-help-students-succeed-this-fal">nebhe.org/journal/5-ways-open-educational-resources-can-help-students-succeed-this-fal</a>.<br />
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- NewPath Learning. “What Makes Supplemental Educational
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Resources Valuable to Students?” <em>What Makes Supplemental
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Educational Resources Valuable to Students?</em>, 11 Nov. 2021,
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<a
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href="https://www.newpathlearning.com/the-latest-news/what-makes-supplemental-educational-resources-valuable-to-students">www.newpathlearning.com/the-latest-news/what-makes-supplemental-educational-resources-valuable-to-students</a>.<br />
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- Parrish, Elizabeth. Personal Interview. 23 Oct. 2024<br />
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- TopUniversities. “University Budgets: Where Your Fees Go.”,
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<em>University Budgets: Where Your Fees Go.</em>, 5 Aug. 2024,
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<a
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href="https://www.topuniversities.com/student-info/student-finance/university-budgets-where-your-fees-go">www.topuniversities.com/student-info/student-finance/university-budgets-where-your-fees-go</a>.<br />
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- Zimmerman, Ben, et al. Students View of Resource
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Accessibility. 21 Oct. 2024</p>
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<p><strong>Presentation available <a
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href="/static/proposal/presentation.pptx">here</a></strong></p>
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