Analyze a website to determine how it fills the characteristics of technical communication explained in this chapter. Use any site unless your instructor directs you to a certain type (e.g., major corporation, research and development site, professional society). Write a report or IMRD (see Chapter 10) in which you explain your findings to your classmates or coworkers.
Technical Report Writing Today, 10e Daniel G. Riordan Chapter 1: Web Exercise Page 31 - Complete the analysis and write a 3-page report of your findings.
(Chapter 10 IMRD Report Worksheet)
Write an introduction in which you briefly describe the goal of your project and your goal in this report. Give enough information to orient a reader to your situation.
Write the methods statement.
• Name the actions that you took in enough detail so that a reader could replicate the acts if necessary.
• Use terms and details at a level appropriate to the reader, but necessary for the subject.
• Explain why you chose this strategy or actions.
Name the actual results of the actions. This section might be very short.
Tell the significance of your actions.
• What do the results indicate?
• How do the results relate to the audience concerns?
• What will you do next, as a result of this project?
• Did you accomplish your goals?
• How is this important to your classmates, in this class?
Develop a style sheet for your report.
• How will you handle heads?
• How will you handle chunks?
• How will you handle page numbers?
• How will you handle visual aids?
• How will you handle the title/report heads?
Develop an idea of how you will present yourself.
• Will you write in the first person?
• Will you call the reader “you”?
• Will you write short or long sentences?
• Are you an expert? How do experts sound? What will you do to make yourself sound like one?
Key question: Why should I believe you Why are you credible?