• Time Required
• 8–10 hours, including reading time

Welcome to Week Eleven of the course. By the end of this week, aim to have the organization of your report sketched out and have a plan for the visuals that you will include in your report. Both the outline and the plan for visuals can change as you work, but this week you are trying to create solid plans for your work.

Holidays & Events This Week

• Arab American Heritage Month continues through April 30.
• Ramadan continues through Friday, April 21.
• Passover, a Jewish holiday, begins at sundown on April 5th and lasts until sundown on the 13th.
• Good Friday, a Christian holiday, is April 7.
• Easter, a Christian holiday, is Sunday, April 9.
• Palm Sunday in the Eastern Orthodox Church is Sunday, April 2.

If you observe these holidays or events and need me to adjust your due dates, send me a message in Canvas.

 

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]
• Collaborate with classmates in planning, researching, writing, revising, and presenting information. [CLO 5]

Activities to Complete

📚 To Read This Week

• “Organizing and Outlining Your Document,” on page 49 in Chapter 3 of Markel & Selber
• Chapter 7 of Markel & Selber, “Organizing Your Information”
• Chapter 18 of Markel & Selber, “Writing Recommendation Reports”
• 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

• Develop an Outline for your Recommendation Report, using the these resources:
  • Recommendation Report Criteria
  • Effective Report Titles
  • Tip Sheet: Recommendation Report Outline
  • Recommendation Outline Self-Check
• Try out strategies from the course by submitting these activities:
  • Try-It #19: Evaluating a Webpage’s Structure
  • Try-It #20: Planning Visuals for Your Report

 

💬 To Discuss This Week

• Optional ways to discuss class issues:
  • Post public questions in the General Q&A Discussion in Canvas if it can be shared with the class.
    
  • If you have a private question, send me a message with the Canvas Inbox.
  • Ask a question or make a suggestion anonymously with the Anonymous Questions & Suggestions form.

 

📓 To Check-In This Week

• Fill out the Week 11 Check-In Survey to let me know how you are doing in the course.

 

 

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