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Week 7


 

 

 

Instructions: Before you proceed to write the background section of your proposal, you need to complete some secondary research on the project: you need to review literature on the project or the topic the project deals with. So for this assignment, you will write a progress report that tells me about the sources you are using to develop your project and the report.

In this unit, you will read about:
  1. how to write a progress report,
  2. how to summarize information, and
  3. how to use bibliographic form to cite sources. 

To complete this unit:

Task 1

  1. Read about Progress Reports in general and the Progress Report 1 Assignment Page
  2. Read the How to Write a Summary
  3. Read the Progress Report 1 Sample
  4. Skim the Bibliographic Entry Sample pages so you know about bibliographic form.
  5. Do your own research and find at least four articles that you can use to help you write your proposal.
  6. Write the final draft of the progress report.
  7. Email thompson@uidaho.edu me the progress report for a grade.
 

Task 2

  1. Re-read the Proposal Background Section

 

 

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