3000 words research paper

Project 2 Prompt

Length: around 2,500-3,000 words

Audience: Instructor and Peers (Academic)

 

In business, reports are often based on significant research and are commonly packed with critical details and data. These documents deliver substantive information and analysis that organizations need to plan, produce, evaluate, and advance their work, including major projects. The task for these reports is to study the topic, analyze it, and present the readers the details of your analysis. They are written in objective, impersonal (yet readable) style. This project asks you to write a report for your fellow peers in which you discuss and analyze the current debate or conflict in the business field you researched for Project 1 and provide conclusions about its history, current state, and future.

Project 2 serves many purposes. First, it is intended to give you practice in writing toward a particular audience and working in a particular genre. Second, it aims to build upon the awareness and knowledge of the current state of your discipline. Third, it gives you practice with researching, analyzing sources (critical reading and thinking), and citing in APA format. Fourth, it aims to give you practice digesting large amounts of information into smaller, more succinct sections (something commonly associated with writing in the business professions).

Your research report will need to include the following elements:

· It must be in report format, with a targeted audience (maybe a company itself, maybe other students who share your major whom you want to inform, etc)

· It should be cited using APA documentation style.

· It must be around 2,500-3,000 words.

· It should include a variety of sources from scholarly journals (at least 2), trade/profession publications, and popular press (newspapers, magazines, blogs, etc.). It must contain a minimum of 10 sources.

· It should be written in a tone that is conversational and objective, as well as positive.

· It must use correct grammar, punctuation, usage, spelling and mechanics.

· It should use sources from 2016-present. Limit pre-2016 sources to background issues.