Professional Documents
Culture Documents
McConnell, Katie. McFarland, Christiana. Common, Brett. “Supporting Entrepreneurs and Small
Businesses.” National League of Cities, Center for Research and Innovation, 2012. Pp.
https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/documents/ineap/RI_SmallBizToolkit-2012-Web.p
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Cities/Center for Research and Innovation which is a PDF file stating many ways a small
business works and runs properly/successfully. The title of the article is called Supporting
Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses so therefore it helps us know that they are going to be
talking about how things can be made successfully out of a small business. So overall the article
is talking about how we as a big city/country can help keep up the need for small businesses
and people who like to start something for themselves. Those type of things matter because it
gives authicinity to the place we call home. This article is broken down into several main points
because it wants you to understand the development of small businesses as well as the role
they play within their city. It also talks about key partners for small businesses because a lot of
times there is some type of partnership connection to get a small business off the group and
started. Whether it is partnerships to promote your business or giving other businesses your
cards to handout to people. A lot of time there is some type of partnership. Those are the three
main topics covered that they break down into great detail throughout the article as well as show
graphs that help you see firm size and small business proportions etc. This article really helps
understand the depth at which the development of small businesses occur and their importance.
I feel as though this article had authors that really helped capture the truth about small
businesses because it gave both sides to the story. They stated very factual information instead
of opinions whether they believed in what they were having to state or not. I felt as though it was
a reliable source of information and they were not subjective as to the information they put in the
source. Overall it is a website published by an organization but by reading through this you can
easily gain the knowledge they are giving to you because it is filled with different situations and
how businesses are affected. The audience throughout this is anyone I feel as though is
interested in starting a small business or anyone that has a small business and is trying to gain
knowledge about how to better it for themselves. It has compared with the other sources
because this one does not have previous people speaking that have had small business
experience. This is very factual based and based off things that have been observed. Overall it
fit my research very well, because it gave me the perfect information needed. It gave me the
correct information to help support my argument and my side of how I felt about the small
business work. It allowed me to see it from the side of partnerships, city views, economics etc. I
also just enjoyed reading this source because as a business major it gave me a lot of good
A reliable website:
Shane, Scott. “Small Business’s Problem with Government Regulation.” Small Business Trends,
www.smallbiztrends.com/2011/01/small-business%E2%80%99s-problem-with-governme
This source is a reliable website that I used a lot throughout my Topic Proposal. This article is
coming from the position of why regulation from the government is bad on small businesses.
understand why certain decisions are put into place. The main topics it gave us to try and
understand the negative impact is the problem that poor showing is causing and why regulation
by the government overall is having a negative effect on the small businesses. The overview of
this source is understanding why small business owners and people that have a special place
with small businesses therefore do not like government regulation because it makes the
business overall not have a lot of the values the owner wants it to have. Corporate level
businesses and small business cannot be ran the same way and have the same type of positive
impact. One of the businesses would take a negative hit and it is the small businesses when it
comes to government regulation. Overall, there is one author for this source and by reading this
article it seems like he has had a lot of experience with understanding how business owners feel
about the government regulation. He seems to be very biased in what he is stating throughout
his source and the information he is giving to support his claims. He might have had personal
experiences to where he feels differently than how people who have not had experience with
regulation would feel. Throughout this website, it states a lot about how the government
regulation had a negative effect on businesses so therefore, it is very one sided. But it is not one
sided to where it sounds like it is based off opinions, it is one sided but has very factual
information. I felt as though the quality of this source was very effective in the information it gave
me. It seemed very reliable and seemed as though it had gathered its information from more
than one small business. The website is a website that is published by an association.
Throughout this website it was a little difficult for me to pick out an intended audience but I
believe that the audience would be any type of small business owner because this is an article
where they are trying to look out for owners and allow their businesses to still run on the values
they instilled in it. Overall, compared to the other two sources this was one I really relied on to
try and see the negative impact the government had on a business because it was a very one
sided article, not a mutual sided article. This was a very usefulness article for me and I
thoroughly enjoyed reading it. It fit into my research because like I said before it gave a one
sided view to the topic which helped me really zone in on key points. That is why I believe it
helped me shape my argument because I am on the side of the topic that thinks government
regulation is bad for small businesses so this article was perfect. It helped me take a look at my
other sources in a different light because those sources were mutually sided. I will for sure use