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

Welcome to Week Eight of the course. This week we continue collaborating on the final projects of the term. Specifically, this week you’ll work with your group to write the portions of your group proposal, which pitches the topic for your recommendation report.

All of the work from now on in the course requires interacting with your group, so it’s important that you keep in touch with your group and meet the deadlines that your group has set.

Holidays & Events This Week

• Indigenous Peoples’ Day is Monday, October 14.
• Thanksgiving takes place on Monday, October 14 in Canada.
• Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from through Tuesday, October 15.
• Sukkot, a week-long Jewish holiday, begins at sundown on Thursday, October 16 and lasts through sunset on Wednesday, October 23.
• Sharad Purnima, a Hindu religious holiday, celebrates the full moon and the end of the monsoon season, takes place on Wednesday, October 16.
• Karva Chauth, or Karwa Chauth, is a Hindu fast day for women. It takes place on Sunday, October 20.
• The Birth of Guru Granth, is a Sikh holiday. It also takes place on Sunday, October 20.

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

 

Objectives for this Module

By 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

📚 To Read This Week

• Group Writing
• Resource Modules:
  • Research Proposals
  • Visual Aids
  • Persuasive Writing
  • Technical Reports
• Proposals from Technical Writing

📝 To Do This Week

• Continue work on your Proposal Assignment, completing tasks as decided by your group. The target due date of October 25. Use the these resources:
  • Proposal Assignment
  • Proposal Criteria
  • Proposal Submission Wrapper
  • Choose one of the following:
    • Proposal Self-Check (if you want to check your project yourself)
    • Proposal Self-Check with AI (if you want AI to help you confirm that you have met the criteria)
• Try out strategies from the course by submitting these activities:
  • Try-It #15: Group Project Audience Analysis
  • Try-It #16: Group Updates Discussion

💬 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.

📓 To Check-In This Week

• Fill out the Week 8 Check-In Survey to let me know how you are doing in the course.

 

 

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