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| Assign5:
Progress Report 1: Secondary Research for your Proposal |
Instructions:
Read the assignment details below. Read
How to Write a Summary. Read
the Sample Progress Report.
Submit the progress report by e-mail
thompson@uidaho.edu.
Assignment Points: 5
Grade: A – 0
Due: See Content Area
Note: You must complete this assignment before you turn in the rough draft of the background section.
For this assignment, you need to report on the progress you have made in finding information to prepare your proposal. This should take the form of a progress report memorandum. To prepare this progress report, you should follow this outline.
Subject: Progress report on....
- Introduction
- State the topic of your project.
- State the purpose of this progress report (to a provide progress report on the work you have done to complete your proposal).
- Secondary research completed:
Report on the secondary research you have completed. To do this, provide a short abstract for each article or chapter in a book (avoid annotating a whole book). Then evaluate the source in terms of its usefulness to your project. Follow this outline for each source.
- Provide the bibliographic entry.
- State the purpose of the article.
 | What is the main point?
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Summarize the main stages of thought.
| What methods were used? Include this only if they are important to your
project.
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| What is the most important supporting evidence the author provides?
(See Note II, below.) |
Summarize the author's conclusions.
| What did the author prove?
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Evaluate the source in terms of your project.
| Is the article useful to your project?
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| How? Where do you plan to use the information the article presents?
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Report on any other work you have accomplished to complete the proposal.
Conclude by stating what work you need to complete to finish the proposal.
 | What do you still need to do?
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| Are you on schedule?
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| Will you finish the proposal on time?
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NOTES:
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Provide four or
more abstracts useful to your project.
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Summarize by giving the main
results. Do not write a description of the article or a table
of contents.
Check this sample.
- Avoid
passive. (Using "I" in progress
reports is generally a good practice.)
- Use one, correct bibliographic form: APA,
IEEE,
or a bibliographic form used in your field.
- Do not plagiarize. Use the key terms in the
articles, but otherwise use your own words. If you use words from the
article, be sure to use quotation marks (“ ..”). Check this
information on
citing sources.
- Use alphabetical order (by author) to list your sources.
- Also look over these samples
Progress Report Sample
1
Progress Report Sample 2 .
NOTE: After you submit your progress report,
you should start the Background Section assignment for the
Proposal. |
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