Final Project – Recommendation Report

The purpose of the Final Project is to provide an opportunity to integrate your understanding of how to use technical writing skills to write a Recommendation Report based on a chain of relevant preliminary documents that you have produced in Weeks One through Four. The Recommendation Report should demonstrate your ability to apply course concepts in recommending an initiative or solution to a problem that you may experience in your current or future career. Use the topic from your Week One Proposal that was approved by your instructor. For reference again, the following are possible topics for your Final Project:

• Environmental Cleanup Recommendation Report
• New Energy Resource Recommendation Report
• Senior Healthcare Facility Recommendation Report
• Telecommuting Recommendation Report
• School Nutrition/Fitness Recommendation Report
• Business Market Recommendation Report
• Educational Grant Recommendation Report
• Patient Safety Recommendation Report
• Topic of your choice Recommendation Report (needs approval from instructor)

Continue to research the topic you chose in Week One and expand the body of your Recommendation Report from the Week Three rough draft. The report should show ongoing consideration of the primary and secondary audiences that you analyzed in Week One.    

Your Recommendation Report must be eight to ten pages in length, exclusive of title page, references page, glossary, and any other appendices. All of the sections below should incorporate any revision suggestions that your instructor offered on the Week Three Assignment.    

The Final Project must include:

• A title page (page 481).
• A letter of transmittal (pages 481).
• An abstract (pages 481-482). This will provide an overview of a problem and solution relating to the larger Recommendation Report.
• A table of contents and corresponding page numbers (pages 482-483). This table should closely correlate with subheadings, and figures in the body of the Recommendation Report.
• A table of graphics/illustrations (pages 483-485). This table should closely correlate with subheadings, and figures in the body of the Recommendation Report.
• A one-page executive summary (pages 483-484, 493).
• Body, including an introduction (problem, solution, background, data sources, scope and limitation) that ends with a clear thesis statement or initiative to solve the identified problem, methods, results, conclusions, and recommendations (pages 478-480).
• A concluding paragraph that restates the paper’s main ideas (pages 480)..
• Effective, useful, and properly cited graphic aids (minimum of three). For citation guidance, see pages 483-485).
• Glossary that provides a comprehensive overview of specialized terminology appearing in the Recommendation Report (pages 479-489).
• Include at least four sources (from Week Two Assignment) in addition to the course textbook that are amply and appropriately cited in the text of the document and listed on the Reference page. Two sources must be credible journal articles from the University of Arizona Global Campus Library.
• References page in APA format (pages 488-489, 622-638).