Recommendation Report: Final, Finished Draft
- Due Apr 1, 2019 by 11:59pm
- Points 500
- Submitting a website url or a file upload
- Available Mar 25, 2019 at 12am - Apr 4, 2019 at 11:59pm
Overview
- This is an activity related to the Recommendation Report: Assignment.
- The activity is worth 500 points. I will add the points to your grade after checking your draft.
Goals
- Analyze the rhetorical situation and determine the appropriate audience or users of written communication, considering the needs of global audiences and people with disabilities. [CLO 1]
- Conduct research appropriate to workplace problem solving, such as literature review, evaluation of online resources, interview, and site inspection. [CLO 2]
- Interpret research findings with understanding of ethical and human implications. [CLO 3]
- Use conventions of various workplace genres, such as proposals, instructions, correspondence, reports, and slide decks, with understanding of how the genre conventions can be used as heuristics and as principles of arrangement. [CLO 4]
- Apply principles of effective visual design for print and electronic presentation, including hierarchical, chronological, and spatial arrangements. [CLO 6]
- Identify and apply the principles of effective style in the composing of usable, reader-centered written communications. [CLO 7]
The Task
For this Major Writing Project Activity, create a final, finished draft of your project in Microsoft Word.
Getting Started
Complete these activities to revise, and edit your draft:
- Check for Concise Phrasing
- Check for Professional Design
- Check Your Use of Visuals
- Check for Citations and Documentation
- Check for Content Completion
You are not required to complete the activities above, but they can help you finalize your draft.
Finishing Your Draft
Create a final, finished draft of your project in Microsoft Word. Keep the following Project Requirements in mind:
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- Focuses on a kind of writing from your Analysis of Writing in Your Field project that you have not written before, as proposed in your Proposal Memo.
- Is a document in report format created in a word processor.
- Covers all of the information listed in the Recommendation Report Scenario.
- Includes the following sections, in this order, in your report (Page numbers refer to Markel & Selber):
- Front matter
- letter of transmittal (p. 481)
- title page with a specific title (p. 481)
- abstract (p. 481)
- table of contents (p. 482)
- list of illustrations (p. 483)—Optional, include if relevant
- executive summary (p. 485)
- Body
- introduction (p. 479)
- methods (p. 479)
- results (p. 479)
- conclusions (p. 480)
- recommendations (p. 480)
- Back matter
- glossary (p. 486)—Optional, include if relevant
- list of symbols (p. 486)—Optional, include if relevant
- references (p. 488)
- appendixes (p. 489)
- Front matter
- Use professional design and formatting that does the following:
- Makes information easy for readers to find and read.
- Emphasizes important information.
- Makes a good first impression as a polished, professional document.
- Uses well-integrated and well-designed visuals to clarify the information.
- Use accurate/appropriate grammar, spelling, punctuation, mechanics, linking, and formatting.
Read additional details on the project assignment, Recommendation Report: Assignment.
Requirements
- Create a document in memo format in a word processor.
- Compose a Recommendation Report, using the criteria above.
Grading Process
I will award the points for this activity after I check your draft and ensure that it meets the basic requirements listed above. Note that your draft needs to be complete to earn the points for this activity.
If I have a question or concern about your draft, I will add a comment to the draft and ask you to revise. Check the help link in the #TuesdayTutorial: Resources on How to Use Canvas DIscussion for information on how to read comments on your work.
I will not provide individualized editing or revision feedback on all drafts. Instead I will provide collective feedback to the class that goes over the issues that I see in the drafts all members of the course submit. I may use excerpts from your draft to provide collective feedback to the class, based on the Anonymous Use of Student Texts policy Links to an external site..
Rubric
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Focuses on a kind of writing from your Analysis of Writing in Your Field project that you have not written before, as proposed in your Proposal Memo.
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Is a document in report format created in a word processor.
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Covers all of the information listed in the Scenario section: Covers the purpose for the kind of writing, the audience or users of this particular kind of writing, the constraints at work on the writers and the readers of this kind of writing, the preparation needed to write this kind of writing, the organization of the kind of writing, the contents of all sections of the kind of writing, the ethical issues that may impact the kind of writing, a bibliography, and an appendix that includes at least three examples of the particular kind of writing.
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Includes all front matter materials, meeting all requirements and expectations for the letter of transmittal (p. 481), title page with a specific title (p. 481), abstract (p. 481), table of contents (p. 482), list of illustrations (p. 483), and executive summary (p. 485).
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Includes all body materials, meeting all requirements and expectations for the introduction (p. 479), methods (p. 479), results (p. 479), conclusions (p. 480), and recommendations (p. 480).
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Includes all back matter materials, meeting all requirements and expectations for glossary (p. 486)—Optional, include if relevant, list of symbols (p. 486)—Optional, include if relevant, references (p. 488), appendixes (p. 489)—including at least 3 examples of the kind of writing.
threshold:
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Uses professional design and formatting that makes information easy for readers to find and read, emphasizes important information, makes a good first impression as a polished, professional document, and uses well-integrated and well-designed visuals to clarify the information.
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Uses accurate/appropriate grammar, spelling, punctuation, mechanics, linking, and formatting.
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Total Points:
500
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