• 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 6.

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 decide whether to write and submit the Performance Review, the optional final exam, in which you will propose the grade you will receive in the course.

Holidays & Events This Week

• Saint Nicholas Day is celebrated on Friday, December 6. During the night on this day in many European countries, St. Nicholas leaves candy and presents in children’s shoes, which they discover in the morning. In Austria, the day is known as Krampusnacht.
• Bodhi Day, which takes place on Sunday, December 8, is a Buddhist holiday marking the day that Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment.
• The Feast of the Immaculate Conception is a Christian holiday that celebrates the conception of the Virgin Mary. It takes place on Sunday, December 8.

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:

• 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

• Checking Your Progress (How to calculate your course grade)
• Review readings from the term as necessary

📝 To Do This Week

• Finish work on your Recommendation Report, using the these resources:
  • Recommendation Report Assignment
  • Recommendation Report Research Guide
  • Recommendation Report Overview
  • Recommendation Report Criteria
  • Recommendation Report Submission Wrapper
  • Choose one of the following:
    • Recommendation Report Self-Check (if you want to check your project yourself)
    • Recommendation Report Self-Check with AI (if you want AI to help you confirm that you have met the criteria)
• Submit any work on Major Projects that you have not yet earned a Complete on by 11:59 PM on Friday, December 6. To ensure that I have time to add feedback to all work before the last day of classes, I enforce December 6 as a firm deadline.

💬 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 14 Check-In Survey to let me know how you are did in the course.

 

 

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