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
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 479).
- A letter of transmittal (pages 479, 488-489).
- An abstract (pages 479-480, 491). 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 480-481, 492). This table should closely correlate with subheadings, and figures in the body of the Recommendation Report.
- A table of graphics/illustrations (pages 481, 483). 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 476-478, 489, 491, 493, 495, 509).
- A concluding paragraph that restates the paper’s main ideas.
- Effective, useful, and properly cited graphic aids (minimum of three). For citation guidance, see pages 294-335.
- Glossary that provides a comprehensive overview of specialized terminology appearing in the Recommendation Report (pages 476, 484, 486-487).
- Include at least four sources (from Week One 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 scholarly journal articles from the Ashford University Library.
- References page in APA format (pages 486-487, 510).
For information regarding APA style, visit the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.
YOU MUST MAKE SURE TO USE ALL THE TEACHERS RESPONSES TO DO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. ALL PAGES ARE ATTACHED ALONG WITH THE WEEKS WORK AND TEACHES RESPONSES TO THEM. MUST BE DONE ON TIME AND ALL INSTRUCTIONS MUST BE MET. PAY ATTENTION TO THE FINAL GRADING RUBICS IT WILL HELP YOU ALONG.
