Description This is an informal final report on previous work. I will provide previous assignments ...
Description This is an informal final report on previous work. I will provide previous assignments and ask you to revise and improve my previous assignments and complete this final report and PRC Table(Preparation + Composition + Revision table). I will also provide some helpful materials and three samples for this assignment. The following is a brief introduction to this assignment; and the details are in the attachment. Title Page Table of Contents (including the headings and subheadings that would appear in a FULL report) Executive Summary Conclusions and Recommendations (enumerated concisely) Reference List A formal report is specifically designed to enable the reader to easily and quickly access, verify and/or explore keydata. Forthatreason, a formalreportis organized,written and formattedquite unlike atraditional research essay. Like the research essay, however, a formal report is heavily documented: its claims must be credible, verifiable and measurable. (An excellent and very useful explanation of explanation of Writing Recommendation Reports is found in chapter 18 of your textbook, pp. 468 - 514.) For this assignment you will not be completing a full formal recommendation report. Instead, youwill complete several essential elements of one. Your tasks are written in BLUE text. UNFORMATTED ATTACHMENT PREVIEW Formal Report Elements assignment CMNS 3000/3100 • • • • • Title Page Table of C ontents ( including the headings and subheadings that would appear in a FULL report) Executive Summary Conclusions and Recommendations (enumerated concisely) Reference List A formal report is specifically designed to enable the reader to easily and quickly access, verify and/or explore key data. For that reason, a formal report is organized, written and formatted quite unlike atraditional research essay. Like the research essay, however, a formal report is heavily documented: its claims must be credible, verifiable and measurable. (An excellent and very useful explanation of explanation of Writing Recommendation Reports is found in chapter 18 of your textbook, pp. 468 - 514.) For this assignment you will not be completing a full formal recommendation report. Instead, youwill complete several essential elements of one. Your tasks are written in BLUE text. Here is how your report will be organized: Page Description - Report title; date of submission; name, title, and organization of theperson Title page Letter/Memo of Transmittal Table of Contents who prepared the report; name, title, and organization of the person receiving the report. - Written using proper correspondence conventions to main recipient of report. - Sometimes professionals put this before the Title Page. - A list of the sections in the report that would appear in the full report. - The TOC indicates how your overall report would be organized. - You don’t have to include page numbers here, because the sections themselves won’t be in the document itself. - All headings/sub-headings that would appear in a full report should be listed on this page. - This page is not labelled with a page number. 1 - The executive summary is a 1/2-to-one-page overview of the entire report Executive Summary aimed at managers or people in a position of power. It discusses the managerial implications of your report: basically, what managers or other people who have the authority to approve your report need to know. Summarize the topic, methods, conclusions/recommendations. data/evidence, results, and - Introduces the topic of the report, states the purpose of the report, names Introduction the person or people who authorized it, and previews the structure of the report. - For this assignment, you will be omitting this (big) part of the report. Body Normally it would include: - Key elements of the report body including the background, methods, results, conclusions, and analysis or discussion. - Uses descriptive or functional headings and sub-headings Conclusion + recommendations - Concise presentation of ?ndings + recommendations. Indicate the main results and their relation to the recommended action(s) or outcome(s). - The conclusions and recommendations are numbered. - Each recommendation should be based on one or more conclusions: You need to make that connection clear. References - A list of all references that would have been used in a full report. - All in-text citations included in the report should have an accompanying entry in the reference list. - All references from your Progress Report will also be included here. - See Reference Handbook Part B: Documenting Your Sources in your textbook pp. 614 - 657 to see how to cite every possible type of source material in APA and MLA formats. Appendix - You need not supply an appendix or appendices for this particular assignment. - However, normally appendices would include related supporting materials. 2 Notes: 3 Preparation + Composition + Revision table Preparation • Name search engines and other databases ? search terms used ? results summarized • AI prompts used (if any) ? results summarized • Other types of preparation Composition Time spent (in hours) Time spent How did you put together the first draft of your assignment? Revision • • • • Time spent # of drafts Revision procedure(s) Feedback from others Revision platforms, if any Please save this document using the following filename format: LASTNAME, FirstName, AssignmentName, PCRtable. Purchase answer to see full attachment User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following Studypool's honor code & terms of service.
