ENG315: Assignment 2.2: Justification Report – Part 2

DUE 11/6/2016

Assignment 2.2: Justification Report - Part 2
Due Week 5 and worth 150 points

In Part 1 of your Justification Report assignment, you built up the following sections: Problem Statement, Overview of Alternatives, Criteria, and Methods. In Part 2, you will revise Part 1 based on your instructor's suggestions and add to it the following sections: Evaluation of Alternatives, Findings and Analysis, and References.

Use the basic outline below to draft your paper. Organize your responses to each question under the following section headings:

• Evaluation of Alternatives (for Questions 1-3)
• Findings and Analysis (for Questions 4-5)
• References (for Question 6)

Using the provided template, write Part 2 of a single-spaced report in which you:

1. Include and revise the sections from Assignment 2.1 (Problem Statement, Overview of Alternatives, Criteria, and Methods) per instructor suggestions.
2. Research the two (2) alternatives (i.e. possible solutions) that you've identified in your Part 1 Evaluation of Alternatives section. Record bibliographic information during research.
   1. Example: You might research other organizations that have attempted similar solutions to the problem you have identified and explore the results of those experiments. 
3. Use what you discover in your research to evaluate each alternative by each of your five (5) criteria
4. Organize the assignment by your criteria. Explain in narrative form how each of your two (2) alternatives stacks up against your first criterion. Next, explain how each alternative stacks up against your second criterion, etc.Briefly summarize in narrative form the major discoveries that emerged from the Evaluation of Alternatives sectio
6. Include a chart like the ones below to illustrate at a glance:
   
   Figure 1: Alternatives Analyzed by Criteria
   
   

   Criteria	Telework Option	Floating Holiday Option
   Productivity	Very high	Negligible increase
   Cost	Very high	Moderate
   Company Image	Increased	Negligible increase
   Worker Morale	Increased	Negligible increase
   Practicality	Moderate	Low
   TOTAL Feasibility* of Alternatives based on Criteria?	Moderate to High	Low to Moderate

   
   *Feasability = Capability of an alternative being carried out with success
   
   
7. Include an APA style (6th edition) References page that documents the two (2) sources (minimum) that you used and cited in-text in your Evaluation of Alternatives section. You may use secondary resources, or you may include one primary source and one secondary source. Remember that both in-text citations and References must be included (to avoid plagiarism) whenever you are directly quoting, summarizing, or paraphrasing researched material.