Quick tips for creating your Formal Report Proposal
Follow the formatting example of a proposal on page 543 in the textbook: use the same headings.
Take a look at the example of a conclusion for a formal report on pages 513 – 514 in the text book and you will see that your final goal is to provide a list of recommendations.
The ultimate purpose of your formal report is to make detailed recommendations based on an analysis of primary data to a reader with the authority to act on those recommendations.
Primary sources for research: carefully review the sections in our text that discuss primary sources (140) and consider what types of data gathering you can use for the topics you are brainstorming. You will need to schedule yourselves accordingly; gathering data via interviews and surveys is time consuming and designing your interview questions and/or surveys will become a priority once you have settled on your topic for of investigation.
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