Grading criteria for memo and progress report

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Memo / Progress Report (2 pages)

  • DRAFT of the BRIEFING NOTE / REPORT - Final Paper
    • Organize your research, presenting information clearly
    • Obtain feedback on work-to-date
  • A document that describes a current problem - i.e., documenting and quantifying the problem IN ADVANCE OF THE BRIEFING NOTE / REPORT - FINAL PAPER
  • Focused on the Funding Source's Needs
  • Helps you organize information, define scope
  • Includes significant Fieldwork covering:
  1. Identifies with People
  2. Points to a problem
  3. Faces complexity (for a sufficiently detailed proposal)
  4. Suggests lines of research (i.e., library research, other kinds of research)
  5. Positions the work within a paradigm (i.e., a definite approach to the problem or issue? Or, within a discipline or field of study?
  • Source: Magrino p. 145; and pp. 169-173 (Chapter 5)


Requirements

  • Adheres to proper letter or memo format
  • Discussions, documents and quantifies the problem
  • Highlights the reader's concerns about the topic
  • Cites specific facts and examples from your research
  • Briefly proposes a plan and provides rationale for it
  • Convinces reader to hear / learn more
  • Provides list of Works Cited (Chicago Style)
  • Proofread for errors and appearance

Key Elements

  • Single spaced, not including Works Cited - (re: 500 words per page)
  • Represents initial correspondence to Patron (in the form of a letter)
  • Addresses specific person by name
  • Explains a current problem
  • Explains some of initial research towards a solution (your paradigm)
  • Cites research (Chicago Style)
    • A preliminary Works Cited page with notes or "Annotations" are added after each entry - summarizing what the sources says and how it will be useful to a project. Also - is this quantifying the problem or setting up the research paradigm
  • Plan of action and associated costs
  • Closes w/ invitation to Oral Presentation
  • Appends list of Works Cited with at least four (4) sources cited in Chicago Style - (Comment.gif: at least six (6) sources are required for the FINAL Paper)
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