UMUC WRTG394 Week 4 Discussion Latest 2019 MAY Question # 00601647 Subject: Education Due on: 05/25/2019 Posted On: 05/25/2019 08:26 AM Tutorials: 1 Rating: 4.9/5

WRTG394 Advanced Business Writing

Week 4 Discussion

DQ1 analyzing
a sample final report — “L’Amore USA”

Read the
assigned sample report and then answer the accompanying questions. The
questions will ask you to critique the report, apply course concepts, and
consider how the report might be revised. Recognizing the strengths and areas
for revision on this sample will help you develop your own report. Provide
feedback for two classmates’ answers.

Please
peruse the sample research-based report, “L’Amore.” You can access it from Content for Week 4.

Then answer
the following questions.

The author
of this paper connected writing assignment #1 to writing assignment #4. What evidence do you see that the author made
this connection?

Analyze the
graphic on page 5. Do you think it could
be improved? How? If you don’t think it needs improvement,
comment on why you think it is a strong graphic in its current form.

Which type
of research—secondary research or primary research—helps this report more? Please pick one of these two choices. Then write a couple of sentences explaining
your answer.

On page 5,
the author writes, “After the survey was completed the facilitator met with the
participants requesting their feedback on the format and clarity of each
example.” Based on this sentence, some
additional analysis could have been integrated into the paper. What additional analysis could have been
integrated? And please explain how it
might have strengthened the report.

DQ2 Preparing
a Research Report Proposal

This
discussion will enable you to plan for the third writing assignment. For this
discussion, you will propose some problem you wish to solve, either in the
workplace or your community, as well as a target audience—specifically the
decision-maker that you will eventually write to. Be sure to read the complete
directions for more details. Provide feedback for two classmates’ answers.

NOTE: This
is not your third writing assignment.
This is a discussion topic that is designed to help prepare you for the
third writing assignment.

To complete
your assignment, you will access the Assignments area and review the assignment
directions. Then you will complete and
submit your draft of the assignment in your assignment folder.

Your third
assignment in WRTG 394 involves writing a memo requesting permission to conduct
research on the topic for your research report.
You should focus on the following as you prepare your report:

Being
specific – your assignment directions (located in the assignment area of the
classroom) give you good examples of ways in which you can make sure that you
are proposing a solution to a specific problem. You must answer the question,
“How will MY workplace or community (this should be narrowly defined as
your neighborhood, apartment community, base housing community, etc.) be made
better by the solution(s) I recommend?”

Identify a
specific decision maker (or makers if, for example, you are proposing a
solution to a workplace issue in your department that might require action by
the HR director as well as your dept. head). Examples of such persons might be
your apartment community manager, the director of base housing where you are
stationed, your department head in your workplace, or your commander for your
military unit.

Use some
primary research – interviews with co-workers, photographs showing a problem
like the need for recycling or going to a paperless office, screen captures
showing the large numbers of emails employees must deal with on a daily basis.

This
assignment can be invaluable to you in preparing for your research report. Note
what the assignment directions say:

You will
find that writing up the proposal will be invaluable in eventually putting
together your final research-based report.
You will be able to apply the scholarly research you conducted for
writing assignment #2 to your specific proposal and evidence of the problem
that you have gathered for writing assignment #3.

For this
discussion topic, please respond with a paragraph in which you describe the
topic you are proposing and the audience (the decision maker(s) mentioned
above;

Please
respond to at least one classmate’s post.

Please note
that you will not be able to see other students’ responses to this discussion
topic until you post your response.