Phil Druker/ Department of English/ UI  English317

Section of Final Report Assignment

MEMORANDUM

TO:     Students of English 317

FROM:   Phil Druker, Instructor

DATE:  

SUBJECT:  Section of Final Report 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 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 form an important section of final report’s body.  So, this should represent 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.

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 four pages long. 

Due dates:   Rough draft: 

         Final draft: 

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.