This unit emphasizes collaborative writing for a formal report in the technical workplace. As with Projects 1, 2, and 3, we will continue to consider document design, audience need, and rhetorical situation in the planning and execution of the report. For this assignment, your task is to design a formal report using Canva. More specifically, you are going to formulate a formal report addressing a challenge within your respective field. The learning outcomes from this assignment are as follows:
Collaborative Writing: this includes working with a team to plan, research, draft, and revise the report.
Research: this includes developing a methodology to include both secondary and primary research responding to a research question.
Style and Design: this includes developing a writing style and design to highlight important information and make it understandable.
Effective Graphics: this includes creating and using graphs, tables, charts, icons, and symbols to effectively communicate complex ideas.
Deliverables
As a team, you will write a formal report, which involves identifying a problem, studying the problem, exploring solutions, and offering recommendations. Your report should include the following parts:
Title page
Background (200 words)
Problem Statement (200 words)
Results (200 words)
Discussion of possible solutions (250 words)
Conclusion (Recommendations) (150 words)
Back matter (including references, glossary of terms, and other appendices)
Other Requirements
In addition to the above-mentioned parts, reports should meet the following requirements.
Minimum 1,000 words (not including Title Page, Front Matter, or Back Matter)
5 sources
Use of at least 5 multimodal elements (e.g., graphs, charts, tables, etc.)
Consistent, professional design
Chapter 11 (See Week 11 folder) has two strong examples of reports (see Figure 11.1 and Figure 11.6). You should design software Canva to create this document. Take care to implement design principles.
Pitching Ideas
Once the team formation is complete, each team of the class will be responsible for pitching a research idea. Ideas should focus on a need (product or service) or issue (social or political). This is a very open-ended prompt, which means that almost any idea may prove viable, but I recommend rather specific topics (see below) than very broad (e.g., COVID-2019, American economic development, Population growth, etc.). The book offers examples of research ideas, but these are fairly general and cliché. Be creative and think about your own interests or our current moment. Here are some examples of what past students have researched: (Pitch Idea: I’ll report on the role of private prisons in the criminal justice system. How have private prisons influenced incarceration rates, sentencing practices, and prison management over time? How do the performance and cost-effectiveness of private prisons compare to publicly operated correctional facilities?)
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