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Assignment 8: Section of Final Report |
Instructions: In this unit, you will learn about writing a final report. To do this you will write a main section of the body of your final report, and in doing so you will complete one of the main objectives you stated in the proposal.
You will submit this as a Microsoft Word document via e-mail
thompson@uidaho.edu.
In this unit, you will learn about and you will write the "section
of the final report" assignment (see below) :
- how to analyze data and facts you present
how to
ORGANIZE ideas
how to deal with tables and figures
how to format formal documents
how to avoid wordiness and some basic problems with grammar
and how to cite sources
NOTE: To make this assignment work, you need to complete
some of your own research!
Points: 15
Grade: A – 0
Rough draft: See
Content Section
Final draft: See
Content Section
Note: this assignment should be 5
pages double spaced (about half of the body of the final report).
Do not write the whole final report for this assignment.
NOTE: You will need to submit copies of some of your sources that you used to put this section together so I can see how you are handling them.
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Assignment Instructions |
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Assignment
For this assignment, you will write a section of your completion report. In doing this, you will present and explain some of your results, or you will define an important term or concept that you will use in body section (not the introduction) of that report. You must include this section in your completion report; therefore, this document must relate directly to your research project and should represent an important section – about 25 to 50 percent of the whole, final paper. In this way, you will use this assignment as a way to start writing your final draft. The assignment will work best if you report and analyze some of the
results (rather than methods) you plan to present in your final report.
You should report the results or data you have found for your project, or you should explain a specific example showing the meaning of a term that is very important in your project. As you report your results, you will need to interpret and
analyze them to show the reader what they mean. Do not merely present data; remember to explain the data.
All of you are specialists in fields that use jargon. As a specialist, you might use common words in a special way, or you might use highly technical terms that general readers or even other specialists in your field might not understand. Thus, you need to define your terms or describe important elements of your project in a way that meets your purposes and your readers' purposes.
Be sure to organize your ideas
carefully. Deal with information in blocks; use headings and
sub-headings. Use paragraphs that focus on one key term/specific
idea.
Before you start to write this assignment, you need to consider carefully who your readers will be for the section and what they already know about the subject.
You should consider using illustrations to clarify your ideas. Remember, you need to explain any figures you provide.
This section should be at least five pages long (double spaced).
Note: If your report involves secondary research, I expect you to use material gathered through secondary research to complete this assignment (two sources minimum). In this way you will gain more practice with citing your sources, and you can get started with completing further secondary research for your research project. You need to submit copies of your sources so I can see how you are handling them with your final draft.
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