- Time Required
- 8–10 hours, including reading time
Welcome to Week Ten of the course. It’s time to begin working directly on the Recommendation Report. This week, you and your group will determine the sources you need for your report and collect the data for your website (such as taking screenshots and conducting interviews). The rest of the term will be busy, as you complete the various sections of the report.
Holidays & Events This Week
- Navaratri, a Hindu festival, honors the goddess Durga. The event lasts until October 23.
- Dusshera is celebrated by Hindus at the end of Navaratri, on October 24.
- Double Ninth Festival takes place in China on October 23. Similar festivals take place in other Asian countries, though the name and date vary.
- Sharad Purnima, a Hindu religious holiday, celebrates the full moon. The holiday takes place on October 28.
- Breast Cancer Awareness Month lasts the entire month of October.
If you observe these holidays or events and need me to adjust your due dates, send me a message in Canvas. If I missed a holiday or have something wrong, please let me know.
Objectives for this Module
After completing this week’s activities, you address the following 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]
Activities to Complete
Due Dates
- All work is due by 11:59 PM on Friday, October 27.
- Grace Period ends at 11:59 PM on Wednesday, November 1.
📚 To Read This Week
- From Technical Writing Essentials
- 5.1: Research Terminology (6 mins)
- 5.2: Finding and Evaluating Research Sources (10 mins)
- 5.3: Defining the Scope of Your Project (11 mins)
- 5.4: Human Research Ethics (8 mins)
- From Technical Writing
- 4.4: Research Tools (8 mins)
- From the Purdue Online Writing Lab:
- Plagiarism Overview (4 mins)
- Style Guide Overview (7 mins)
- Frequently-Asked Questions About Plagiarism (8 mins)
- Common Knowledge & Attribution (5 mins)
- Best Practices to Avoid Plagiarism (7 mins)
- Additional resources
- How We Cite, Video from UNC Writing Center (1 minute 54 seconds)
- What Do I Need to Document? (1 minute)
- Documentation and Citations for Your Projects (2 minutes)
📝 To Do This Week
- Begin conducting research for your Recommendation Report, using these resources:
- Try out strategies from the course by submitting these activities:
💬 To Ask Questions (Optional)
- 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.
- Post public questions in the General Q&A Discussion in Canvas if it can be shared with the class.
📓 To Check-In This Week
- Fill out the Week 10 Check-In Survey to let me know how you are doing in the course.
Photo credit: All She’s Armed With Is Research. by Markus Binzegger on Flickr, used under a CC-BY 2.0 license.