• Time Required
• 8–10 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 final Check-In Survey for the course.

The Grace Period for all open work in the course closes at 11:59 PM on Friday, December 2. 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 optional final exam, in which you will propose the grade you will receive in the course.

Holidays & Events This Week

The first Sunday of Advent is November 27. World AIDS Day is December 1.

Objectives for this Module

After completing this week’s activities, you address the following course objectives:

• Analyze the rhetorical situation and determine the appropriate audience or users of written communication, considering the needs of global audiences and people with disabilities. [CLO 1]
• Prepare to conduct research appropriate to workplace problem solving, such as literature review, evaluation of online resources, interview, and site inspection. [CLO 2]
• Consider the ethical and human implications of my situation. [CLO 3]
• Use conventions of various workplace genres, such as proposals, instructions, correspondence, reports, and slide decks, with understanding of how the genre conventions can be used as heuristics and as principles of arrangement. [CLO 4]
• Collaborate with classmates in planning, researching, writing, revising, and presenting information. [CLO 5]

Activities to Complete

📚 To Read This Week

• Review readings from the term as necessary

📝 To Write This Week

• Finish work on your Recommendation Report, using the these resources:
  • Recommendation Report Criteria
  • Tip Sheet: Recommendation Report
  • Technical Help with Documentation in Word Processors

💬 To Discuss This Week

• Check in with your Accountability Group, according to the agreement that you have made. Use whatever tool your group has agreed to.
• Post any questions you have in the General Q&A Discussion Board in Canvas. If you have a private question, send me an email at tengrrl@vt.edu.

 

📓 To Check-In This Week

• Fill out the Week 14 Check-In Survey to let me know how you are did in the course.

 

 

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