Writing 394 5

As you prepare your draft of the Report for Internal Circulation, it's a good idea to make sure that you understand exactly what is expected in this document.

The Internal Circulation Report, even though it is to be written in memo format,  is a more complex document than the previous memo that you wrote to the field manager. This report is a type of incident report. Here is a a useful description - as you watch this video, pay particular attention to the description of the incident report:

Key Forms of Business Reports

Once you have watched the video, take a look at your assignment. You may see it here:

WA #3 -- the Report for Internal Circulation

Note the elements that your report memo must contain:

a) background and narrative of the situation;

b) findings - what went wrong, and how;

c) as a result of the findings, recommendations for changes in policies or procedures to prevent the incident from occurring again.

Answer the following questions in a brief paragraph:

1) What is the most important element of this report? Finding out what went wrong? Making recommendations to prevent future occurrences?

2) How will you format your report (consult the options offered in the directions for this assignment to answer this question)?

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The following task is designed to expand your familiarity with UMUC’s Information and Library Service’s OneSearch function.  Completing this exercise will also help you as you pursue the research-based report in this class.

If you would like to, please review the same video tutorial that you watched for our earlier exercise.  The tutorial is designed to demonstrate some searching strategies when finding articles in the databases that UMUC subscribes to.

Video tutorial #1

http://polaris.umuc.edu/de/csi/2012_library_tutorials/tutorial_01/tutorial_01.html

After you have reviewed the tutorial, please complete the following tasks. 

1. For the previous exercise, you found four articles on the millennial generation.  You may use one of the four articles you found, or you may find a new one.  But find an article that provides additional key words or other search terms that you can use to enhance your search.  This technique was outlined in the first video.

What additional words did you find that enhanced your search? Please write them here.

2. Use the Boolean operator “OR,” as the video demonstrates, and type in these terms. 

Please write the topic on which you searched and the search terms you used to search on it.  

Please write the number of hits you received as a result of expanding your search using the Boolean operator “OR.”

Please watch the following video tutorial:

Video tutorial #2

http://polaris.umuc.edu/de/csi/2012_library_tutorials/tutorial_02/tutorial_02.html

3.  Take one of the articles you found.  Then, following the instructions provided on the second video, focus your search by using a subject term. 

-What was the name of the article? 

-What subject term did you use?

-How many hits do you find after limiting the search with the subject term?

4.  Next, conduct a new search to find an article on a topic of your choice.  You might choose something related to your major, your work, or your interests. 

When you have found an article, follow the instructions provided on the video and  focus your search by using a subject term.  Then answer the following questions:

-What was the name of the article? 

-What subject term did you use?

-How many hits do you find after limiting the search with the subject term?