Today’s Plan:
- ABO Book on Reports to crowdsource an assignment sheet
- Homework
ABO / Crowdsourcing an Assignment Sheet
In today’s class, I would like you to collaborate and develop the assignment sheet for this project. Below you will find a link to a Google Document. The second page of the document contains a space called “Links, Notes, and Material(s).” As you work in teams of two in class today, I’d like you to put material in that space. In the last 15 minutes of class, we will review that material to flush out the assignment expectations.
So in ABO we’ve got:
- Feasibility Reports
- Formal Reports
- Investigative Reports
- Tables
- Graphs
A few other resources:
- David McMurrey, Recommendation and Feasibility Report
- American Chemical Society, Preparing a Research Report
- Bhat, “Research Reports: Definition and How to Write Them”
- Sample report
Here is our collaborative workspace.
I want to look at the sample proposal on 439. Sample feasability report, 187-188. Sample formal report 202-218. Sample investigative report 291.
How to write a methodology section.
Homeworks
For Friday, read and post on the Corder reading in Canvas. This is probably our last theoretical reading this semester–and I think you will see that it is different in tone and style than the one’s that have preceded it. Corder is very accessible.
Normally, when I give this assignment, I have people write about a situation in which they changed their mind. But not this time. I’ve spent time answering questions and talking about theory, and now I’d like to hear from you. Just write me a reflection that situates Corder alongside the previous readings and lectures on rhetoric. If you want to answer a question, answer one of these: what challenge does Corder issue that problematizes all rhetoric, but especially positivistic rhetoric? What dimension does Corder add to argument that is often ignored?
By this point you should have totaled your data. Start working on your report. If you haven’t done this yet, use the spreadsheet I shared last class as a template. MAKE A COPY.
