Begin researching for the analytical report (Chapter 22)

due al semester's end.

Phase One: Preliminary Steps

a. Choose a topic that affects you, your workplace, or your community directly.

b. Develop a tree chart (page 127) to help you ask the right questions.

c. Complete an audience and use profile (page 31).

d. Narrow your topic, checking with your instructor for approval and advice.

e. Make a working bibliography to ensure suffic ient primary and secondary sources.

f. List what you already know about your topic.

g. Write an audience and purpose statement (page 19)

and submit it in a research proposal (page 559).

h. Make a working outline.