week 7
RTG 393 students,
This discussion task is designed to improve your understanding of the analytical report, which is our last writing assignment for the class.
To complete the task, please do the following:
-Access the document that you accessed in week 6. It is called “Technical Writing: Student Samples and Teacher Responses,” Please clickhereto access the document.
-See the section starting at page 64 of the document. It features a piece of writing by a student named Joseph Auteri, who was in a technical writing class at Pennsylvania State University.
-Answer the following questions.
1. On page 69, Mr. Auteri is told to improve his table of contents.
2. On page 70, Mr. Auteri is given some comments on his executive summary. Most of the comments relate to grammar and word-level issues. Rewrite his executive summary, addressing the grammatical issues that the instructor notes.
3. On page 70, Mr. Auteri is asked to “beef up” the first paragraph of his executive summary. Why, from your perspective, is the instructor asking for more content here?
4. Please consider any other comment that the instructor wrote on Mr. Auteri’s paper. What did you learn from the comment, or what observation can you make from the comment? You can write a couple of sentences in answering this question.
5. Overall, what was the purpose of this analytical report? Did it apply any of the rhetorical patterns listed in your textbook on page 5-19 (please note: this is5 dash 19)? If so, which pattern did it apply?
