Questions:
The interoffice memo assignment that is due in draft form on November 18 and in final form on November 20 evaluates products that will solve a business problem. Your assignment specifies that you need to include at least three "high-quality" research sources in your reference page. A high-quality source is likely to provide accurate, trustworthy, and objective information.
First, review the two items I posted last week on how to determine if a source is "high-quality":
• Lecture - Acceptable & Unacceptable Internet Sources of Information. This one contains a video from the Johns Hopkins University that suggests some ways to determine the trustworthiness of research and published articles and some examples I have put together of acceptable and unacceptable internet sources.
• Lecture - Beware of Biased Statement from Company Websites. Since you will also be using information from company websites and retailers of products for your report, I have written this short lecture to help you identify information which is trustworthy and objective and to avoid information that is likely to be biased on those sites.
Then, complete the following in your original posting. Please number your responses:
1. Briefly describe the problem you intend to solve in your report and the types of products you plan to evaluate for your recommendation. (For example, you might say something like, "The retail store I work at has been having a problem with our 20-year-old cash register continually going down. I want to evaluate purchasing a newer cash register that will be more reliable." Or you might say, "Our office has only one, older printer. It prints only black and white, but we need to print proposals in color in order to best present our services. Currently, we have been going out to a quick printer to have these done, which is costing us time and money we do not have. I plan to evaluate potential color printers that will meet our needs."
2. List three specific information sources you might use that are "high-quality" and good sources of accurate information. Provide correctly formatted references for each source. Note that by "sources" I mean specific articles or pages on a web site that will appear in your reference list. (You may have to do some research on websites by using the "About" link that most web pages provide and finding out what you can about the owners of the website and the people who write articles for that site and how they are compensated.)
3. Explain what makes each of these three information sources "high quality" by citing information from the two lectures listed above. You need at least two citations in your discussion and provide references as needed.