Technical Report and Business Email: Final Draft
- Due Dec 16, 2020 by 2pm
- Points 10
- Submitting a file upload
This is the final draft assignment in the Technical Report and Business Email sequence. Make sure that you read the overview description for the full details about the sequence.
For this Final Draft assignment, you will:
- Address feedback from the 1:1 conference about your second draft and make meaningful improvements based on the feedback.
- Ensure that your technical report and business email are in your own words and targeted at your specific audience, Lou Stubecki from the City of Seattle Urban Forestry team.
- Make sure that your technical report has the necessary sections: Executive Summary, Introduction, Method (or similar), Data Analysis (or similar), Findings (or similar), and Recommendations and Conclusions.
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Polish your your technical report and business email to ensure a high quality final product, written with professional style and tone.
- If you use any resources other than the the Trees for Seattle Urban Forestry Story Map, make sure that you cite your sources in a References section at the end of your technical report. See the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) for citation help.
- Turn in your final draft of your technical report and your business email here in Canvas. Make sure that you turn in both documents! Also, do not forget to complete the reflection.
Rubric
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Improvement
Your final draft addresses comments from your 1:1 conference and shows significant improvement over the second draft.
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Audience Analysis
Your technical report uses appropriate vocabulary, is appropriately complex, and appropriately address the motivations of your audience. Your business email directly addresses your audience.
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Structure and Organization
Your technical report uses sections with clear headings (and possibly subheadings) to organize your content. The sections have the right type of content. For example, the Methods section does not list recommendations.
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Executive Summary
Your executive summary covers the most important aspects of your technical report for people who do not have time to read the whole report.
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Polish and Professionalism
You have made an effort to proofread your technical report and business email. They do not necessarily have to be perfect, but they should be much more polished than an early draft and use a professional style and tone.
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