WEEK EIGHT: Drafting Formal Reports
Objectives:
- Complete all necessary research for Formal Report
- Organize your data and create your visuals
- Analyze and create charts for your survey and or interview results
Readings:
- Technical Communications: Please review these Chapters: The Research Process & The Formal Analytical Report
- Instructor’s Blog
3:2 Assignments:
PLEASE SEE Due dates on our Course Schedule
- Formal Report Draft posted on your team forum page as a word doc AND emailed to your peer reviewer [do NOT cc your instructor] . Please ensure that you include your reader’s name and title on your cover page. Before midnight [late assignments will loose 0.5 points per day]
NOTE:
Your draft document should contain the core elements of the report, including the following:
- the working title and title page
- the table of contents
- the introduction
- the body of the report complete with appropriate headings and subheadings
- at least two of the illustrations you plan to integrate into the text of the report, complete with the label you plan to use
- in-text references in MLA style to any secondary sources you quote, paraphrase, or otherwise use in the report
- your list of conclusions and recommendations
Note: What you need not include in this first draft are certain of the supplements ordinarily completed closer to the submission of the final draft: the letter of transmittal, the abstract, the list of illustrations, the full set of illustrations, the appendices, the final list of any references consulted.