What problem or question will your information enable readers to solve or answer?

Report Proposal Memo

This memo is your request for approval of the

problem

you have selected

for your

final report

. Your memo should include the answers to the following questions

(not necessarily in the same order):

a.

What do you plan investigate? (Be

as specific as possible.)

b.

Who will your hypothetical readers be?

c.

What problem or question will your information enable readers to solve or

answer?

d.

What problems will you have gathering the material? Are

you reasonably

sure you can find the necessary infor

mation in the time available for the

report?

e.

What information will you give your readers? What aspects of the material

will you discuss in depth? In general? What might you ignore? What

criteria will you use to make those decisions?

In a concluding parag

raph, ask for approval of your topic.

Report Proposal Memo

This memo is your request for approval of the problem you have selected for your

final report. Your memo should include the answers to the following questions

(not necessarily in the same order):

a. What do you plan investigate? (Be as specific as possible.)

b. Who will your hypothetical readers be?

c. What problem or question will your information enable readers to solve or

answer?

d. What problems will you have gathering the material? Are you reasonably

sure you can find the necessary information in the time available for the

report?

e. What information will you give your readers? What aspects of the material

will you discuss in depth? In general? What might you ignore? What

criteria will you use to make those decisions?