3 Recommendation Report 2 
Recommendation Report
Description
The Recommendation Report is your final project for this course. As such, you might think of it as a final exam—an opportunity to illustrate what you’ve learned throughout the semester. As part of this project, you must draw upon your ability to use and integrate writing, graphics, document design, research, persuasion, and, above all, clear thinking and expression of ideas. Your objective is to provide your client with a professional quality document that makes a persuasive recommendation based on the results and conclusions you’ve drawn from your research. You will describe your research methods, report the results, explain the conclusions you’ve drawn from those results, and present a recommendation.
Above all, this project is an exercise in critical thinking and in-depth, creative problem solving. As you approach the final stage, you may want to refer to your notes and the text in order to review the strategies and concepts that we’ve covered throughout the semester.
Structure
Use the discussion in Chapter 19 for guidance in writing the report. Although your report should have a structure that is specific to your project, you should use the sample reports on Blackboard and in Chapter
19 to guide you. Be sure to adapt, for your own report, the strategies used in these samples. Figuring out the right approach is part of the assignment’s challenge. Although your project and tasks will differ from the samples, the basic structure of your report should be the same and include the following items in the following order:
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8.
Title page
Table of Contents
List (or Table) of illustrations *
Executive Summary
Body
Glossary *
References
Appendix/Appendices *
All items are required except those marked with an asterisk (*).
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Front Matter
Title page – Not to be confused with a report cover, this is the first page of the report document.
Follow the example on page 533.
Table of contents – This section follows
Description
The Recommendation Report is your final project for this course. As such, you might think of it as a final exam—an opportunity to illustrate what you’ve learned throughout the semester. As part of this project, you must draw upon your ability to use and integrate writing, graphics, document design, research, persuasion, and, above all, clear thinking and expression of ideas. Your objective is to provide your client with a professional quality document that makes a persuasive recommendation based on the results and conclusions you’ve drawn from your research. You will describe your research methods, report the results, explain the conclusions you’ve drawn from those results, and present a recommendation.
Above all, this project is an exercise in critical thinking and in-depth, creative problem solving. As you approach the final stage, you may want to refer to your notes and the text in order to review the strategies and concepts that we’ve covered throughout the semester.
Structure
Use the discussion in Chapter 19 for guidance in writing the report. Although your report should have a structure that is specific to your project, you should use the sample reports on Blackboard and in Chapter
19 to guide you. Be sure to adapt, for your own report, the strategies used in these samples. Figuring out the right approach is part of the assignment’s challenge. Although your project and tasks will differ from the samples, the basic structure of your report should be the same and include the following items in the following order:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Title page
Table of Contents
List (or Table) of illustrations *
Executive Summary
Body
Glossary *
References
Appendix/Appendices *
All items are required except those marked with an asterisk (*).
•
•
•
•
Front Matter
Title page – Not to be confused with a report cover, this is the first page of the report document.
Follow the example on page 533.
Table of contents – This section follows