• Time Required
• 7–8 hours, including reading time

You’ve made it to the last full week of the course! This week you will do the following:

• Finish and submit your Recommendation Report.
• Complete any other remaining work in the course that is still open.
• Fill out the SPOT Survey and Pathways Assessment for the course.

Your full report (and any other outstanding work in the course) will be due by Friday, December 3, 2021.

This week is the last chance to turn in work for the course. No course activities can be due during the last three days of classes, by policy in the Virginia Tech Faculty Handbook, 9.6.1. Next week, you will begin work on the Performance Review, the final exam, in which you will propose the grade you will receive in the course.

 

What You Will Learn & Practice

• How to analyze your audience and purpose so that you can choose supporting material that is convincing to your readers and decide the best way to present information clearly and effectively. [CLO 1]
• How to find and evaluate ethical evidence in secondary sources, such as books, articles, podcasts, and videos, and through primary research, such as observation, inspection, experiment, and interview, that supports your position, that supports your position. [CLOs 2 & 3]
• How to write documents you may encounter in the workplace, such as letters, memos, instructions, proposals, reports, and presentations. [CLO 4]
• Collaborate with classmates in planning, researching, writing, revising, and presenting information. [CLO 5]
• How to use colors, layout, and formatting that make your documents understandable and easy to read and how to take advantage of design principles, including contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity, to communicate your ideas effectively. [CLO 6]

 

Activities to Complete

📚 To Read This Week

• Chapter 18 of Markel & Selber, "Writing Recommendation Reports"
• Chapter 11 of Markel & Selber, “Designing Print and Online Documents”
• Recommendation Report Criteria
• Documentation and Citations for Your Projects
• Professional Design for Reports

📝 To Write This Week

• Common Report Errors Self-Review
• Guided Self-Review: Use of Images
• Recommendation Report Checklist
• Recommendation Best Draft Submission

💬 To Discuss This Week

• Post any Questions about the Recommendation Report that you have (optional). You can check this Discussion for answers as well.

• Complete any outstanding Discussion Feedback peer review activities:

  • Feedback in the Second-Chance Report Body Feedback Discussion is due by 11:59 PM on Monday, November 29.
  • Feedback in the Last-Chance Recommendation Report Feedback Discussion is due by 11:59 PM on Wednesday, December 1, 2021. If you can, however, share your feedback sooner.

📓 To Track This Week

• Respond to the Pathways Course Assessment, to reflect on the outcomes you have met. This is a requirement of the Pathways program.
• Track and reflect on the work you have done for the week in your Work Log for the Week of 11/29, reviewing the Weekly Work Log Guidelines if needed.

 

 

Photo credit: Last Chance by R. Miller on Flickr, used under CC-BY 2.0 license.