High Focus

Instructions

Writing Assignment #4 is due by midnight, ET, Friday, March 7.

Detailed information on this assignment can be found in the Week 4 conferences.  The assignment is posted here below, too.

Submit your assignment as an attachment in Microsoft Word. Name your file with your last name and WP4. For example, if your last name is Smith, your file name should be smithwp4.

Final Problem-solving Project (30%)

Each student will write a persuasive proposal addressed to a specific, named decision maker, stating a real problem in your workplace or community and offering your PERSONAL solution to the decision-maker, in at least 3500 but no more than 5000 words, including, in this order:

 

1.                  Letter of Transmittal to the decision maker

2.                  Title Page (with paper title, decision maker to whom addressed by name, and your name)

3.                  Table of Contents (with section headings and page numbers)

4.                  List of Illustrations (the page numbers where your illustrations appear)

5.                  Executive Summary

6.                  Introduction

7.                  A series of Text sections separated by specific headings and including at least two integrated graphic aids (that is, incorporated on the same pages that discuss each) and at least eight in-text MLA format citations

8.                  Conclusion(s)

9.                  Recommendations – a series of step-by-step actions for the decision maker to take to implement your proposed solution.

10.                   A Works Cited Page (so titled) with at least eight references in MLA format (must follow MLA rules and must consist of at least three different TYPES of sources (for example, newspapers, magazines, Internet, interviews, books, journals) – no more than three of any given type, except no more than two personal interviews). ALL references MUST be used in in-text citations in the body of the report.  More of any type reference source may be used, if required for your topic and audience, and no one type of source (interviews, for example) is required, but the minimum of eight and the limitation on number will determine if this requirement is satisfied.  "Internet" sources are references found ONLY on the Internet; a newspaper article obtained from the paper's website counts as a newspaper article, not as an Internet reference. Works Cited Internet sources MUST include the section title, the home page title, the author (if available), and the date of your access.

11.       Graphics MUST NOT be on stand-alone pages, only on the page with text that refers to them specifically, and must be sourced in MLA in-text format.  Clip art and irrelevant graphics will not count toward this requirement; graphics MUST be designed to advance the reader's understanding.