How to Write a Recommendation Report that Achieves Results - Assignment Overview

Objectives

Upon completion of this assignment, students will be able to:

Write a grammatically correct and accurate recommendation report (MO1)

Use a professional tone and language (MO2)

 Show skills in Standard English necessary for reaching a specified audience (MO3)

 Demonstrate accurate use of Block format and other details required for the report (MO4)

Use correct APA style format and citations (MO5)

Conduct effective research to gather evidence and data to support the main claims made within the document (MO6)

Show enhanced communication skills. (MO 7)

Create tables and charts to share the numeric findings and support the argument (SLO8)

Make an honest use of the researched material (MO9)

Make ethical decisions to provide the best solutions to resolve a problem (MO9).

Be careful when choosing your topic for this packet. You will be writing multiple documents on this topic.

Note: This assignment is due on October 5th, Monday morning before 6:00 AM. Late work will not be collected for this assignment. No exceptions!

Recommendation Report (R.R.) Assignment Overview

Your Dean has read your memo and has asked you to provide detailed recommendations on the ideas you suggested within your memo. Identify the problem or opportunity; establish criteria for responding to the problem or opportunity; determine your options; study each option
according to the criteria; draw conclusions about each option; formulate recommendations based on the conclusions.

For the memo you all wrote a couple of weeks ago, you were asked to research and find an issue that negatively impacts student life at your educational institution. The task was to write a memo to the Dean of your particular School or College and make them aware of the situation
and also propose a solution that would aid in eliminating or at least controlling this problem. In the recommendation report, you will elaborate on 

What was proposed in the memo. ?

Will your proposal require funds?

 Will there be a need to hire personnel?

 Where will the funds come from?

How will your solution impact the students? 

If your school is aware of the situation and they have already taken steps to improve the situation, then explain convincingly why the current policies are not as effective.

Research other Universities to see how they handled a similar situation. Important: Use your findings as evidence to support your claims. Cite your sources in APA format. Add attribution tags and parenthetical citations; also, cite the sources in the references list.

Using the subject/topic you wrote your memo on, further elaborate on the issue and provide a detailed recommendation report. Below is a list of issues that was provided for the R.R. packet.

1. Sexual assaults on your college campus

2. Teenage pregnancy and young motherhood rates at P.V.

3. Mass shootings and gun control on your college campus Recommendation Report Rough Draft

4. Increasing rate of suicide cases at PVAMU

5. Increasing student loan debts

6. Increased drug, alcohol, and controlled substance abuse at your institution If for some reason you did not complete the memo assignment, you can pick a topic of your interest and complete this assignment by writing a memo now.

Note: For a detailed description, read the Recommendation Report assignment prompt posted on the course homepage.

Rough Draft Requirements:

For the rough draft, you will follow all the original instructions that are posted in the Recommendation Report assignment prompt (read that prompt first). Your rough draft should have all the elements and parts required for the report. The only difference between the rough draft and the final report will be that the final proposal has to be 6-8 pages in length, while your rough draft should be at least 5-6 pages long.

Your report should include the following ten components in the same order as explained below

1. Letter of Transmittal (Use a copy of the revised memo)

2. Cover Page (APA format)

3. Abstract (summary)

4. Table of Contents (page numbers should match the actual document)

5. List of Illustrations

6. Introduction

7. Methods

8. Results

9. Conclusions

10. Recommendations