Writing Homework Help

Reports are ubiquitous in the work world. While they are common,
there are many different types. Reports share the common goal of
delivering information, but they take very different forms to accomplish
this goal. To help expose you to the many and varied forms of reports,
and to sensitize you to the relationship between audience and form, you
will analyze two different reports using the PAD approach, and assess
the similarities and differences between your exemplars.

Assignment

To get ready for the Collaborative Report, you’ll be analyzing report
examples for purpose, audience, and design to give you an idea of the
work you’ll be doing.

The goal here is to begin to familiarize you with the report
genre–which is as common as email in the workplace and really, really
broad. This discussion works to expose you to different types of reports
and relationship between form and PAD. Note the similarities and
differences between different types of reports.

The assignment:

• Using Google, find two sample reports
  • The reports can be any type you want, but the two should be
    different types. Use what you learned about different types of reports
    in the reading to help you figure out what type you’re looking at.
• For each report you choose, write a brief analysis of the following
  • Purpose: What is the report doing? What’s the goal?
  • Audience: Who was the report written for? What aspects of the report suggest who the audience is?
  • Design: Describe the format (structure, headings, figures, etc.).
    Describe the organization/structure of the report–list all the sections
    included in the report and a brief summary (one sentence) of each
    section.
• After analyzing each report, write a short paragraph comparing the two reports. What similarities and differences do you see.