Writing homework to do

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034-Module-2-Wr327-Sp2018-IRP-ABSTRACT-and-IRP-Review

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Wed09May2018—Module 2, Week 6, Day 2

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Today we will cover a technique for creating an informational abstract for your IRP—using the model from the Bokashi composting example

—Canvas file #: “032-Module-2-Wr327-W2018-IRP-1-MODEL-EXAMPLE-TEMPLATE.”

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Follow these guidelines from the Purdue OWL: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/656/1/

Informational abstracts communicate contents of reports:

· Include purpose, methods, scope, results, conclusions, and recommendations

· Highlight essential points

· Are short—from a paragraph to a page or two, depending upon the length of the report (10% or less of the report)

· Allow readers to decide whether they want to read the report

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Example Abstract from Bokashi Composting

Guidelines

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The scope of the following Investigative Research Project (IRP) Report is limited to research activities undertaken in Wr 327 Technical Writing during winter term 2018. Activities included a four-phase methodology consisting of brainstorming among peers, web and OSU library research, and personal observation and other information exchanges.

----Include scope, purpose, methods

----This section may be used verbatim

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The results of this activity are brought together in the report’s Discussion section, which states that Bokashi composting could be a viable method for local recycling of food wastes generated on the OSU campus. Finally, this report recommends that OSU’s Special Projects Office fund a pilot study of three complete Bokashi composting cycles using six 5-gallon Bokashi buckets—with the subsequent fermented waste trenched into multiple garden locations at the Oak Creek Center for Urban Horticulture on the OSU campus.

----Include results, conclusions, and recommendations

----Adapt this content to your IRP

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Students with an interest in Horticulture would be paid to work on the pilot project, with the project findings (including photo documentation) published to the “Horticulture Projects” web site.

----Highlight essential points, allowing readers to decide whether they want to read the report

----Adapt this content to your IRP

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035-Module-2-Wr327-Sp2018-ASSIGNMENT-12-25pts-due-Wed09May-at-1159PM

---Please upload your IRP Abstract draft to Canvas

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036-Module-2-Wr327-Sp2018-ASSIGNMENT-13-200pts-due-Sun13May-at-1159PM

----Please upload your completed 6-page IRP Final draft to Canvas

----Reminder: IRP Review recommendations included as part of ASSIGNMENT-13

----Reminder: IRP Rubric included as part of ASSIGNMENT-13