Feasibility/Recommendation Report Presentation
Recommendation Report For Promotional Resources Presentation
This assignment was our last and final assignment from English 3365-Professional Report Writing. This presentation was just another of the many real-world assignments that we had in this class. This assignment was based on our presentation of our “Feasibility/Recommendation Report.”
My group and I performed this presentation for our class audience as well as our client that we had been working with to create our “Feasibility/Recommendation Report.” To perform our presentation my group and I created a PowerPoint presentation to make it easy for our audience to understand the purpose of our recommendation report.
For grading purposes we had to evaluate our peers’ or should I say colleagues’ presentation performances. In return they evaluated our presentation performance. The entire class went about this by filling out an evaluation form and then writing at least two comments on the back of the sheet. When we finished evaluating one group’s presentation and filling out the form Dr. Art Fricke went around the room collecting the forms so that the next group could begin their presentation. The biggest reason for these evaluation forms was that they would determine our presentation performance grade.
Each of our group presentations had to be less than 15 minutes. Along with our group presentation we also had to provide our class with some kind of handout with our presentation information, no longer than two pages. The handout clearly needed to contain our presentation title, names of each group member, and our course and section number.
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Feasibility/Recommendation Report
Lubbock Rape Crisis Center Recommendation Report for Promotional Resources
This assignment was our biggest project in this class. It took a couple of months to plan and work on. Since it was a group project that made it a bit easier, but it was still a challenge.
The goal of the “Feasibility/Recommendation Report” was to define, research, write, edit, and deliver a feasibility or recommendation report to a real-world client. The assignment was composed of five general steps which were; select a client, clear our client idea and general report idea with Dr. Art Fricke, Define our specific report goals, research, write and edit the report, and finally deliver the report to our chosen client.
When selecting a client there were certain criteria that needed to be followed. First, the client could not be a family member, a good friend, or an employer. Second, the client needed to have a problem or issue that they needed help with. Third, if we chose a nonprofit organization than it would be a better idea since they always have lots of problems and issues, and appreciate free help and advice. Finally, the client we chose had to agree to spend an average of 30 minutes a week of effort throughout our project to help us create a useful report. With that said, my group and I decided to choose the Lubbock Rape Crisis Center to be our real-world client. Once we picked a client Dr. Art Fricke had to okay it.
One of the most important things we had to focus on was defining specific report goals for our report. In doing this we had to work closely with our client so that they could share with us what problems or issues they needed help with.
Next, came preparing our document. Our first step was to research. My group and I had to plan and coordinate all of the research between group members so that we all equally had portions of the report to work on. Writing up the entire report came next, which took a long process, and finally we edited it. This is just a very quick and dense summary of the steps we took to do this assignment.
Finally, we had to deliver our final and edited “Feasibility/Recommendation Report” to our client so that they could see how hard we had worked and proposed a solution to their problems/issues.
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Group Progress Report Two
Kristian Luginbyhl; Group Progress Report Two
Brittany Lewis; Group Progress Report Two
Alex Edwards; Group Progress Report Two
This assignment was our second and final group progress report. The purpose of the report was to clearly describe the current state of the “Feasibility/Recommendation Report.”
My group and I comprised this progress report by individually writing memo reports to Dr. Art Fricke. The memos were to help Dr. Art Fricke understand the current state of our group project since the first progress report that we wrote. We still kept in mind our audience and final report document goal. Also, we restated clearly and fairly what each group member had accomplished since the previous progress report assignment. We wrote in detail about our future plans regarding our project and what each group member will complete in order for our final draft of the project to be effective and successful.
This final group progress report was very important for the outcome of our group project. It determined whether our project was going to be effective and successful. If we had not yet accomplished various things, then the final draft of our project would not be clear and efficient. That is why we depended on this second group progress report to help us figure out what more we needed to complete.
After each group member finished writing their memo report we collected them into one piece and turned it in.
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Group Progress Report One
Brittany Lewis; Group Progress Report One
Alex Edwards; Group Progress Report One
After planning a rough layout of our “Feasibility/Recommendation Report,” this assignment helped us figure out where exactly we were in the progress of our group project. This was the first progress report, of two, that we had to report to Dr. Art Fricke.
Written individually as a memo, each of us had to clearly describe the current state of our group project. Each of us also had to describe the current state of our own individual sections of the project. Our goal was to create an effective progress memo report to help Dr. Art Fricke understand the state of our group project. We had to keep in mind who our audience was and what our final report document goal was trying to achieve. Again, we had to clearly and fairly describe what each group member had accomplished thus far. Lastly, we had to describe future plans and what each group member would accomplish in the final weeks of our group project.
After completing our memo reports, my group and I gathered all of them into one collection and turned them in. Dr. Art Fricke would look over them and then meet with us again to give us valuable feedback that would help us continue working on our group project.
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Group Report Work Plan
This assignment was the first assignment that prepared us for our final project in this class. After Dr. Art Fricke had already put us into group of four, we began planning our “Feasibility/Recommendation Report.” My group and I were instructed to write a memo report addressing Dr. Art Fricke about how to plan a successful “Feasibility/Recommendation Report.”
This memo was supposed to help our group accomplish an efficient and effective project. In the memo, we clearly stated who our audience was going to be, our project goals which included a sub-section of our entire proposal report layout with three major sections, group member responsibilities, and finally potential problems and conflicts that may arise throughout the project planning process. To make it more clear we broke up the potential problems and conflicts into two sections which were problems with our contact and problems within our group.
Our biggest focus of our “Feasibility/Recommendation Report” was to define our project very clearly, describe a specific audience, and define a clear final report document goal.
Finally, we had to email (one per group) our “Group Report Work Plan” memo report to Dr. Art Fricke. He then would meet with us afterwards to give us feedback and advise to help us in planning this final project.
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Mowing Proposal Report
This was the first assignment that really took up a good amount of time for me to do. Not because it was difficult, but because you had to include various parts of information. This assignment’s purpose was to plan a successful solicited formal proposal report. Again, we were to base it off of the assignment description from our textbook which was to propose mowing services to a local golf course, highway medians, and parks in Augusta, Oregon.
In order for my proposal report to be detailed, I needed to make up a substantial amount of information. That is, come up with my own company name, services that my company offered, prices, and images of the different types of mowing tools and tractors that my company owned. The main goal of my proposal was to create an effective formal proposal report that effectively responded to the solicitation given in the exercise description. Therefore, I had to convince the town officials of Augusta, Oregon that I was the best contractor for the job regardless of the price I quoted to them.
I formatted my proposal report so that it appeared clear and professional. I also had to think about how to organize all of my information logically, which challenged me. The biggest focus I had to think about was how to appeal to my audience because if my proposal did not achieve that, then I did not meet the goal of the proposal report.
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Shipping Increase Letter
This was our first group project, and while it was not a major assignment, it was still a challenge for my group and me. We were put into groups of four by Dr. Art Fricke to plan a successful persuasive business letter report.
The business letter report was based on an assignment description from our textbook which was a hypothetical situation, as always. Our letter was to contain all of the information in the exercise description very organized and clearly.
Everyone in our group decided to name our place of business Eagle Office Supply. The persuasive business correspondence that we were writing was directed to our loyal customers concerning an increase in shipping rates. The main goal of our letter was to persuade our customers to not be upset by the unfortunate changes. We advised them of the two weeks notice change and offered other companies’ prices to guarantee that our company, Eagle Office Supply, was still the cheapest and best way to go. Finally, we created our own logo to put on the corner of our letter which was an encircled eagle.
When we finished, all of our group members edited the report very professionally with some help from Dr. Art Fricke. This assignment not only taught us how to write a professionally persuasive business letter report, but to also work with others. Since this was our first assigned group project I received the opportunity to experience my peer’s work ethics. This would help me contemplate, in the future, whether I would like to work with them again or work with new people.
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Trucking Incident Memo
Just as the Committee Progress Email Report taught me how to successfully write an internal progress report, this assignment, Trucking Incident Memo, also gave me the opportunity to write an internal progress report based on an exercise from the textbook.
Again, I was to follow all of the guidelines and make sure that I included all of the information that the exercise description contained. The format of this report was done as a memo.
The memo was created around a hypothetical situation. I was the Traffic Manager preparing a memo for the President of the company I worked for, Spangler Trucking, Inc. In this memo, I explained trucking operating accidents of the week of January 20, 2008.
The first item in the memo was a list of all of the people present in the company’s mandatory Accident Review meeting. Next, I wrote in detail about an extensive review regarding a total of four highway accidents that were the result of faulty tires that our delivery company trucks were operating on. I included an accident summary, and a section of the accident details.
In the conclusion of the memo I explained how our insurance company, Acme Underwriters, filed a lawsuit against the tire manufacturer, Speed’s Tire Manufacturer. I explained how this would prevent a reoccurrence of such an accident again.
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Committee Progress Email Report
Committee Progress Email Report
The goal of this specific assignment was to create a successful informal internal progress report according to a hypothetical description from our text book.
In this case the hypothetical situation was based on physicians from a hospital that were facing being reappointed for committees. In this assignment I was a Medical Staff Administrative Assistant at Lubbock Caring Hospital. I was writing a memo notifying the Hospital Director about work that I had already completed and work that I had scheduled to complete regarding the reappointment of committees project.
The assignment called for an email that included all of the information given in the exercise in the textbook. The email was supposed to contain all of the basic goals of an informal internal progress report.
I was to think about how to organize the information clearly and what my potential audience would need from this report. Also, how to meet those specific needs that my audience requested very effectively.
Finally, the Committee Progress Email Report taught me how to successfully write an informal internal progress report. I learned the basic goals that an informal internal progress report needs in order to be effective. Most importantly, I learned how to meet special needs that my audience requests effectively.
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