• Time Required
• 10–12 hours, including reading time

Welcome to Week Four of the course.

It’s time to begin working directly on the Recommendation Report. By the end of this week, aim to have the organization of your report sketched out. The next weeks will be busy, as you complete the various sections of the report.

Details on this week’s assignments are included in links below. If you have questions, you can include them in your Check-In Conference message or email me if you need a faster answer.

Activities to Complete

📚 To Read This Week

1. “Organizing and Outlining Your Document,” on page 49 in Chapter 3 of Markel & Selber
2. Chapter 7 of Markel & Selber, “Organizing Your Information”
3. Chapter 18 of Markel & Selber, “Writing Recommendation Reports”
4. Videos from LinkedIn Learning (free with your VT.edu login)
   • “Organizing an Outline” (46m)
   • “The importance of planning” (4m 46s)
   • “Develop a final outline” (6m 13s)

📝 To Write This Week

• Instructions Assignment (Suggested due date: Tuesday, June 14)
  • Instructions Full Draft Submission
  • Instructions Criteria
  • Tip Sheet: Instructions
  • Instructions Self-Check
• Recommendation Report Outline (Suggested due date: Tuesday, June 21)
  • Recommendation Report Outline Full Draft Submission
  • Recommendation Report Criteria
  • Tip Sheet: Recommendation Report Outline
  • Effective Report Titles
  • Recommendation Outline Self-Check

💬 To Discuss This Week

• Post any questions you have in the General Q&A Discussion Board in Canvas.

✅ To Check In This Week

• Check-In Conferences for Week 4 (Suggested due date: Thursday, June 16. End of Grace Period: June 21)

 

Photo credit: 2013-10-09 Thinking about visual outlining #learning #sharing #writing by Sacha Chua on Flickr, used under CC-BY 2.0 license.