Memorandum
To: Dr. Erika Paterson, Technical Writing Professor UBC
From: Cynthia Li, Technical Writing Student UBC
Date: July 10, 2020
Subject: Progress Report of Formal Report on Studying and increasing information and support surrounding homelessness in communities such as the Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre (CDIRCS)
As instructed in unit 2:3, below is a progress report containing the guided details.
Audience: The main audience will be the volunteers and staff members at CDIRCS who are familiar with the centre as well as the operations. This is to better understand the daily happenings of the centre and common concerns.
Purpose: The purpose of the report is to become better educated on homelessness in communities and the ways centres work as well as to gather information on the most needed or best ways to support the centre.
Significance of Report: It is to better identify the challenges that centres face and why. Knowing these things are important in spreading information that can gather more support whether from individuals, organizations etc. that can then provide the necessary supplies or help in creating plans to overcome the challenges. It is to understand what centres need in times such as a pandemic especially and what is needed to garner more awareness but also education and action.
Research Plan:
- Writing interview and survey questions
- Following ethical guidelines
- Volunteering at the centre and conducting interviews with the primary data sources
- Volunteers and staff members
- Observations of the operations
- How busy etc.
- Reviewing of primary research (interviews)
- Secondary research based on information from primary research
- May include statistics, researching articles
Writing Schedule:
- July 10-12
- Finalizing interview questions and separating them from survey questions
- July 13-17:
- Volunteering daily
- Interviews with staff and volunteers at different times of the day
- Providing survey questions (link)
- July 18-20:
- Sorting through and summarizing the information
- Researching statistics or more articles based on common links in the information
- July 22:
- Begin writing the Formal Report
- July 27:
- Complete draft
- August 8:
- Examine peer review
- August 9-17:
- Complete the Formal Report
Thank you for taking the time to read my progress report. Please let me know if you have any questions and I look forward to any feedback.
Link to Survey: 301 Cynthia Li Survey Questions
Interview Questions: 301CynthiaLiInterviewQuestions
Hello Cynthia,
Thank you for posting this Progress Report. Your surveys and interviews questions need to be attached for approval before proceeding, please alert me with an email (erika.paterson@ubc.ca)and a link when you have completed, thank you.