Checking for Specific Details in Your Progress Report

Your Progress Report should use concrete, specific details to describe your work on your Recommendation Report. Tell your readers precisely that you have done and how you will complete the remaining work. The examples below demonstrate how to make sure you use details. Revise your Progress Report as necessary.

Rather than general information like this Use specific language like this
We are making good progress on the project. In the two weeks since inception, our four-member team has achieved three of the six objectives we
identified for project completion; we are on track to complete the project in another three to four
weeks. (Taken from p. 49 of Business Communication for Success Links to an external site. by McLean)
We have assigned the remaining tasks to team members. We have assigned the remaining project tasks to the following team members:
  • Geordi is in charge of organizing and writing intro/front matter.
  • Data will focus on the majority of the body for the report, including introduction, methods, results and conclusions.
  • Wesley will write and formally make the recommendations (with visuals and diagrams, if necessary).
We agreed on how to organize the pages on the website. We created a basic wireframe with sections for the information that we need to include on each page of the website (site title, site menus, page title, content, and footer with copyright information and address).