Assignment Three: The Formal Report/Scholarly Article
Directions
Using the technical topic you selected in the Assignment One Feasibility Report and explored in the Assignment Two Progress Report, craft a formal report that includes a minimum 2100-word body (sometimes called the scholarly articleportion of a report). The word count applies only to the body of your report that starts with the Introductionand ends with the Recommendation. (In other words, you cannot count any of the words in the Front Matter or the Back Matter.)
You will craft a persuasive/argumentative article that poses solutions to the issue under discussion.
You must have a minimum of eightsecondary sources in your paper:
- Fouracademic/scholarly sources
- One—at a minimum—of the academic/scholarly sources must be from a current (within the past five years) peer-reviewed scholarly journal.
- Four popular/credible sources (most newspapers and magazines would fall into this category)
- Four of your eight sources must be accessed through the EdCC library databases.
The above are the minimum requirements. You can get all your sources from the EdCC Library databases if you like. Also, some students use only academic/scholarly sources and skip the popular sources—I’m fine with that.
The completed formal report must contain the following elements in the following order:
Front Matter
____ Title page
____ Abstract
____ Table of contents
____ List of figures (if applicable: you must use at least one table or figure in this report)
____ List of tables (if applicable)
____ List of abbreviations or symbols (you must include either this list or a glossary at the end)
Body
____ Scholarly Article: A third-person narrated text with headings/subtitles that includes the following:
____ An introduction that includes a thesis and explanation of the
report’s purpose
____ A discussion of the topic’s background in a way relevant to the
scope of your research and article’s focus.
____ A discussion of the methodologies people use/d to begin to
measure the topic’s issue or to discover the topic’s
existence/feasibility
____ A definition/discussion of the issue(s) that your recommendations
will seek to remedy
____ A discussion of the findings and conclusions regarding the impact
the issue(s) has/have upon an industry and/or overall society
____ An explicit discussion of the feasible recommendation(s) people
must consider as they try to determine ways to remedy the topic’s
issue(s)
Back Matter
____ Works Cited
____ Appendices
____ Appendix A is Flesch Kincaid reading level and passive sentence percentage
____ Appendix B is your biography (can be current or reflect your goals—funny is okay)
____ Glossary (see note under Front Matter above)
