This discussion topic is designed to help you consider a problem in your workplace or community and to design strategies in communicating about it. This discussion topic might help you approach your final research-based report in WRTG 394. , please access and read through the following . These items are available as eReserves in our class in LEO. You can access the articles by taking the following steps: click Content select Class Resources select eReserves select the icon for eReserves in the middle of your page. in the list of items that appears, locate the articles and download them , respond to this discussion topic by completing the following tasks: I am on a committee at work. There are five members of the committee. However, three of the members telework two days a week, and, as a result, we can never meet face-to-face. Our meetings are not very productive because some of us are in the room during the meeting while some of us are on the phone during the meeting. Yes. This is an example of a channel barrier. The medium chosen for our type of communication online meeting software is not suitable or appropriate for our context. I could email my supervisor, who formed the committee. Our committee was formed for a specific duration of time. We have two months remaining for our committee. I think we should arrange for everyone to be in the office on the same day each week for this two months. We could hold our committee meetings on that day of the week. This arrangement would solve the problem in that we would all be physically in the room for the meeting. A series of messages would be preferred in this case. They would be the following: I could send an email message to my supervisor. In that email message, I would note the following: I could then outline a plan for having everyone in the office one day during the week so that we could hold our meetings on that day. 710 View profile card for Christina RatliffChristina Ratliff2 hours ago Must post first. _____________ This discussion topic is designed to give you the opportunity to peruse the assignments that a previous student in WRTG 394 wrote as she successfully completed the class. This task will allow you to begin thinking about and planning for your WRTG 394 research writing assignments, the Synthesis Literature Review, the Research Proposal Memo, and the Research-Based Report. This is not your first writing assignment. This is a designed to help you begin thinking about the three research-related writing assignments in WRTG 394 Peruse the sample Synthesis Lit Review (WA#2). This assignment calls for the student writer to use scholarly (academic) and professional (trade) sources. Does the student do this successfully? Name one example of each type of source used in this sample student-written assignment. 2. Examine the sample Research Proposal Memo (WA#3). Has the writer identified a problem and suggested possible solutions? What has the writer asked permission to do? What kind of primary research has the writer proposed to do? 3. Take a look at the sample Research Report (WA#4). Has the writer followed through on conducting and using the primary research proposed in the memo in the report? How has the writer presented the research? ( 4. One final task. Look at the secondary research sources used in the Synthesis Lit Review and the Research Report. Writing on the same topic for WA#2 and WA#4 made the writing of the research report an easier task than it would have been if different topics had been chosen. Comment on how the writing on the same topic for both these assignments helped the writer.
