Before you begin this assignment, make sure you have read and thought about Chapter 8, "Technical Reports," in The Essentials of Technical Communication.

Assignment 3 will be your proposal for Assignment 4, which will be an informal technical report (see Chapter 8) on a current topic of your choice in your field. Think of this process as falling within two phases: the proposal phase (Assignment 3) and the report phase (Assignment 4). Assignment 3 and Assignment 4 are two separate assignments for the purposes of our gradebook, but they are really two parts of a larger project.

Assignment4 Instructions
Before you begin this assignment, make sure you have read and thought about Chapter 8, "Technical Reports," in The Essentials of Technical Communication.
As discussed in the previous module, Assignment 4 is the informal technical report that you proposed for Assignment 3 (see Chapter 8–specifically pages 159-162, which discuss "informal" reports).
Consider your final report a cumulative effort illustrating the skills you have learned and are learning in this course.
Assignment 4 requirements:
Include at least two technically informative graphics. These should be graphics that convey specific technical information that will help your audience understand your points (charts and graphs, for example). These graphics should not be just simple clip art or decorative embellishments.
Include at least four recent (2018 or later) research sources (references) that are actually cited and used within your report; at least two of these should be from a peer-reviewed source.
Write the report in memo format, addressed To:______" (as you did for Assignment 3).
In your subject line, include your report's title and state which documentation format you are following.
Organize your report into a minimum of four sections, with headings: Introduction/Summary (these may be combined, as your book suggests), Discussion, Conclusion, and References. In your "References" section, list your sources in correct, current MLA, APA, Chicago, or IEEE format (see Appendix B in The Essentials of Technical Communication and/). These four sections are required, but you may add more sections if that makes more sense for your project.
Use design principles to make the document easy to read.
As with all writing assignments in this course, follow the standards of good writing style, grammar, punctuation, usage, and spelling. Remember "the qualities of good technical writing" discussed on page 8.

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