Assignment Dates
- Target Due Date: By 11:59 PM on Tuesday, December 3, 2024.
- Grace Period: Your group will set the end of the grace period for submitting your contributions. All work must be submitted by 11:59 PM on Friday, December 6, 2024.
What I Want You to Do
Assess your Recommendation Report by completing one of the two self-check options. Both list the Recommendation Report Criteria. If you have trouble deciding which option to choose, the Self-Check Options Explained page can help.
Each member of your group needs to complete either this self-check or the self-check with AI to receive credit, as Canvas has no system for group Quizzes. You can submit the self-check as many times as you’d like to see how your work compares to the expectations for the project.
Why I Want You to Do It
In the workplace, you should be able to compare your work against a list of specifications to determine if your project is complete. This self-check works just that way: You should be able to confirm every one of the project criteria in the checklist before you consider the project ready to submit.
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Relevant Course Objectives
- Identify and define a problem or subject related to your particular field (or another specific problem according to your assignment’s directions) and assemble and analyze research related to this problem. [CLO 1]
- Analyze the context of this problem or subject and determine appropriate audiences for the unit’s deliverables. [CLO 2]
- Practice workplace genres associated with a team-based research project: a research proposal, meeting minutes, a progress report, a recommendation report or an informational report for non-expert readers, a slide deck presentation of the report, and a video presentation. [CLO 3]
- Practice team and collaborative work in all phases of project management. [CLO 4]
- Design strategies for evaluating the overall effectiveness of the suggested approaches to the researched problem. [CLO 5]
- Illustrate the ethical and human implications of the solutions proposed for solving the problem. [CLO 6]
Where You Can Find Help
- Group Writing
- Recommendation Report Overview
- Recommendation Report Criteria
- Technical Writing Essentials
- Howdy or Hello? Technical and Professional Communication
- Ch 20: Recommendation Reports (Individual pages from this chapter are included in the instructions for each section of the report)
- Documentation and Citations for Your Projects
- Professional Design for Reports
- Resource Modules:
- Sample Recommendation Report
How You Do It
Preparing for the AI Self-Check
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- Review the Proposal Criteria, which outlines the requirements for the assignment.
- Work through Common Errors Self-Review and the Use of Image Self-Review to ensure you have a complete draft.
- If necessary, save the Recommendation Report as a PDF so that you can upload it to Copilot or the AI tool of your choice.
- Open Copilot in your web browser and log into the tool using your VT.EDU username and password.
Checking your Group Proposal
- Open the Copilot Prompt to Check Your Group Recommendation Report PDF.
- Copy the prompt from the Copilot Prompt to Check Your Group Recommendation Report PDF and paste it into the question area on Copilot.
- Click the Upload button in the Copilot question area, and upload the PDF draft of your Group Recommendation Report.
- Click the Send button in Copilot and wait for the response. Here are two example responses to another student’s project: Example 1 is well-written, and Example 2 has significant errors.
- Click the Export button and save your response as a PDF.
- Upload the PDF you just exported to the first quiz question below so that I can see the responses Copilot gave you.
Answering the Self-Check Questions
- Answer the remaining quiz questions to indicate whether Copilot confirmed that you met the criteria for this project.
- Submit your checklist responses and check your point total for the activity:
- If the checklist is marked 1 point for your Self-Check responses, your group has completed the activity successfully and are ready to submit your final version to the Recommendation Report Assignment.
- If the checklist is marked less than 1 full point, work with your group to revise the proposal to meet the criteria that you did you marked “False”. You should be able to confirm all the criteria before you submit your project.
How to Assess & Track Your Work
Work is always marked as either 1 for Complete or 0 for Incomplete:
- Canvas will mark this activity Complete in Grades automatically when you confirm you have met all of the Recommendation Report Criteria.
- Canvas will mark this activity Incomplete in Grades automatically if you do not confirm that you have met all of the Recommendation Report Criteria by the end of the grace period.
- I will mark this activity Incomplete if I find your project does not meet the Recommendation Report Criteria. You can submit an updated Self-Check after you revise your project.