Progress Report Exercise

Directions: Write a progress report. The subject of this report should be about the progress

youre making in this class. (Class name: Engineering Technical Writing, average grade C )

In what ways are you benefiting from the class?

And, in what ways are you not, but would like to?

What areas of writing do you perceive to be your strongest? Weakest? (e.g. organization, grammar, style...)

What aspects of the course have you found most useful so far? least useful? Explain.

Any additional comments.

Be sure to first prewrite, then write a draft, and finally rewrite, revising the text. Follow the criteria youve learned for formatting progress reports and for document design. Assignment Specs: Make the assignment work for you. This topic can be presented as serious or funnyits the format and quality of writing that I care about. Remember that your report needs to be written in a manner that is accessible to a lay personin other words, a low-tech audience. Purpose: to apply your newly acquired technical communication skills to the progress report format. To practice writing an effective progress report in preparation for our next assignment. Layout: use memo heading, single space, block paragraphs. Follow the progress report format in our textbook and keep in mind the design and structure guidelines in this weeks readings. Use the Progress Report Paradigm as a guide. Look at the sample report Unit. Write with active/passive-free language. Check your percentage of passive sentences with the readability statistics function in Word. Include this percentage at the end of your report. Your report should be between 1 and 2 pagesno longer thank you. Include a table or graph.

Use Progress Report Paradigm as a rubric (used in Moodle rubric also).

Progress Report Paradigm I. INTRODUCTION A. Note the purpose of the document and the type of conclusion s)ecommendation(s) you hope to explain and win B. Answer all of the Reporter's Questions C. Note the Personnel-note the staff, companies, etc. involved with the project and who requested the information in this document. D. Povide a smmary of previous activity and/or documentation (i.e., is this the third progress report, is this the first progress report since x-installation, etc.) I. Discussion: Break your information into FOUR subcategories. Craft a topic sentence for each new category A. Work Accomplished. Use subheadings and a table or Gantt chart, if necessary Organize this section in ONE of the following ways 1. Chonologically 2. Topically clustered 3. Documented from most-to-least important, or vice-versa B. Work In Progress. Use subheadings and a table or Gantt chart, if necessary Organize this section in the SAME way you organized content within the "Work Accomplished" category (i.e., use parallelism): 1 Chonologically 2. Topically clustered 3. Documented from most-to-least, or vice-versa C. Work Remaining. Use subheadings and a table or Gantt chart, if necessary Organize this section in the SAME way you organized content within the "Work 1 2. 3. Accomplished" and "Work In Progress categories .e., use parallelism) Chronologically Topically clustered Documented from most-to-least, or vice-versa D. Problems Encountered. Use subheadings, if necessary. If relevant, organize this section in the SAME 1 Provide a highlighted subsection for each type" of problem 2. Use photographic language, to explain the problem 3.Explain WHY each documented issue is a problem, i.e., what is the impact or measure you need/must take in order to complete the project? way you organized the content within the previous three categories. III. Conclusion and Recommendation A. Separate the "Conclusion" and subcategories, if necessary. B. Conclusion(s). Make sure to note the completion date-and whether or not this remains a feasible completion date C. Recommendation(s). Provide suggestions, including the ones you will entertain in order to complete the project. tion" sections. You may use additional