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ASSIGNMENT 14: Research Report
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ASSIGNMENT OVERVIEW
Your research report represents the culmination of all that we have covered this semester.
As a result, this assignment has many components and accounts for a substantial portion of your course grade. The required components are listed below and modeled in your textbook.
You will want to carefully read the sample reports on pages 95-138.
Report must contain the parts listed below:
1. Title page
2. Letter of transmittal.
3. Table of contents
4. Table of figures
5. Informative abstract
6. 1000-2000 words of body texts (4-8 pages) utilizing appropriate and consistent system of the headings.
7. At least one graph and chart.
8. At least one table.
9. Glossary( if needed)
10. Appendices (if needed)
11. List of references.
Because this assignment requires you to include a table in the body of your report, also read pages 175-178.
Title Page:
12. Title page (Sample)
Letter of transmittal: (Sample)
For your research topic, choose a controversy, issue, problem, or innovation relation to your major(emergency management), the field you hope to work in emergency management), or the field in which you currently work. Choose something you are genuinely interested in.
You must use a minimum of three sources for your report. All three must be referenced in the text of the report. You can use books, journal articles, trade publication articles, magazine articles. One of your sources may be a website, but it must be a .gov, .org, or .edu site. In other words, no Wikipedia or other similar.com nonsense!
GRADING CRITERIA
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Grammar and Coherence |
10 points |
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Letter of Transmittal |
20 points |
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Title Page |
5 points |
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Table of Contents |
15 points |
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Table of Figures |
15 points |
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Informative Abstract |
15 points |
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Body text (4-8 pgs.) |
60 points |
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Body formatting (headings, spacing, font, etc.) |
15 points |
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At least one properly formatted graph |
10 points |
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At least one properly formatted table |
10 points |
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Quality of Research (use of college-level sources) |
10 points |
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List of correctly formatted references |
15 points |
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TOTAL: |
200 points |
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