Week 4 Wednesday

Good Morning,

I hope to have Introductory Memos back to you by the end of the day. I'm having a bit of trouble with browser compatibility and Web Campus this week, and it's slowing me down just a bit. (WebCampus insists I sign in with my ID and password multiple times in order to download your attachments. Kind of a pain.) Overall, many of you still need to do a better job with introductions, conclusions, and – most of all – using multiple short, succinct paragraphs in every section. So, that's a lesson learned from the memo assignment that you can apply to your work going forward.

Audience, Purpose and Context: Recommendation Report
Remember, your primary deliverable for the International Project is a Recommendation Report. You are not creating any kind of workshop or travel guide or documents for employees. You are only making recommendations to the company as to the kinds of information that they should gather to help prepare their employees for the move. It's important that you tell Bellcom how you arrived at your recommendations: Why were the sources you chose to rely on the best/most credible sources? And based on those sources, what are the most important things Bellcom can do to prepare their employees to do business in the new city?

A note about formatting your Final Report: You should use the final report template as your base. The other materials are separate documents that are included with the final report. In other words, if you were submitting the Final Report as a hard copy, all of the materials would be presented in one folder, even if they are saved as separate files electronically. Since you are required to submit your materials electronically for this class, your electronic submission is no different. All of the materials are submitted as one file even if they are separate documents. If you're having trouble with the file merge process, you may submit your final report in a zip file if you wish. 

Once again, you can submit separate documents of your Final Report to the Peer Review space, but you probably should get the formatting correct from the beginning and offer a single file for peer review. Just a reminder, that there is a single peer review space for the entire class for the final report. I encourage you to share your draft, look at drafts posted by other teams, and offer feedback to other teams. Seeing how other groups are approaching this writing problem will be incredibly helpful.

Have a great day!

Julie