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This report proposal outlines best practices for writing management reports in Human Resource Management. It covers the essential writing context including occasion, audience, and purpose, as well as the writing process encompassing prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing. Additionally, the report discusses strategies for effective communication, the role of methodology in research, and key ethical and political considerations. By addressing critical aspects of research question formulation and literature reviews, this proposal aims to guide practitioners in conveying their findings effectively.
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BA in Human Resource Mgmt Management Report Proposal
The Writing Context • Occasion • Topic • Audience • Purpose • Writer
The Writer: Writing Process • Prewriting • Drafting • Revision • Editing & Proofreading
The Writer: Writing Strategies • Cognitive • Metacognitive • Affective • Social
Appeals • Logos • Ethos • Pathos • Bathos
Your Thesis • What’s your report gonna be about? • What guides the organisation of your ideas in the report? • Question answer? • Claim or position defence? • Problem solution • Hypothesis affirmation/negation
Methodology • What kind of information to you want? • How are you going to get it? • How are you going to analyse it? • How is this information going to answer your question? Defend your claim? Solve your problem? Affirm or negate your hypothesis?
Rowena Murray’s Page 98 Paper • My research question is … (50 words) • Researchers who have looked at this subject are … (50 words) • They argue that … (25 words) • Debate centres on the issue of … (25 words) • There is work to be done on … (25 words) • My research is closest to that of X in that … (50 words) • My contribution will be … (50 words)
Outline • Title • Background • Initial Literature Review • Research Aims, Objectives, Questions (read: Thesis) • Method(s) • References
The Ethical/Political Issues Paper • Analytical—What are you analysing? • Evaluative—By what criteria do you measure the ethical/political considerations? • Argumentative—You must argue that you have considered the most important issues and have accommodated each of the concerns sufficiently.
Freewriting • Freewriting is private, stream-of-consciousness, desert-island-type writing • It’s wide open • Write non-stop for five minutes • Prompt: What political/ethical issues might I have to contend with, and I will I satisfy readers that no one will get hurt and I won’t commit political suicide?
Academic Expectations • Complexity • Formality • Objectivity • Precision, including accurate representation of degrees of certainty • Explicitness • Inter-textuality and accountability
Resources • www.uefap.com • http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/ • http://classweb.gmu.edu/WAC/somguide/