Report Must Also Include Recommendation Report Pr

Purpose

For our final project, you will write an 8-10 page recommendation report on an issue associated with
developing your career knowledge and skills. You’ll identify a specific audience, but you can count on
writing to a group of people who has shown interest in your topic but doesn’t know much about it. You’ll
supplement the report with an 8-10-minute PowerPoint presentation (about 15 slides).

Report Types and Topics

As our text points out, reports come in many varieties. For our project, we’ll use the book’s “middleground” definition: “A business report is an orderly and objective communication of factual information
that serves a business purpose” (200). The business purpose of your report is to recommend a course of
action undergraduate business students should pursue to develop their “identity capital” (Jay, 2012).
You have tremendous flexibility regarding the recommendations you make about how someone can build
his or her identity capital. Most importantly, you need to select and recommend methods for developing
one’s identity capital that will yield enough content for a strong, well-developed document. The report’s
primary goal is to recommend a course of action, but you will also offer analysis and present conclusions
drawn from research you conduct.
We’ll also rely heavily on chapters 8 and 9 in our book, especially when we define problem and purpose
statements and determine the factors you need to investigate (201-202).

Research/Visuals/Cover Letter/Tone

You will conduct primary and/or secondary research for this project and cite that research appropriately in
the form of a Works Cited page at the end of your report and PowerPoint presentation. Secondary
research must be credible; primary research can be based on carefully constructed survey instruments and
interviews with business professionals. Your report must also include graphic elements (visuals); the
course materials will explain citation format, and methods for integrating figures, tables, charts and
graphs into the report. You will also submit a cover letter. The report must be written in a professional
tone/style defined by our text in Chapter 4.

Report Specifications
Length:

At least 8 pages of body text
Margins: 1 inch all around

Line Space: Single

Paragraph Breaks: Line space; no indent

Font Size: No smaller than 11pt for serif, 12 for
sans serif

Executive Summary: Yes, not counted in page
count

Headings: No more than 3 pts larger than text
type

Page Numbers: Bottom, flush right margin, text
size

Title Page: Yes, with course name, instructor
name, proposal title, group name, individual
names

Visuals: Include visuals, with captions/titles
placed per standard convention; cite all
unoriginal visuals

Citations: Follow MLA guidelines

Cover Letter: Yes; standard transmittal letter
format