CMN 323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bar Chart, Cherry Picking, Lexisnexis
25 May 2016
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Chapter 11: reporting in the digital age workplace. Keep management informed about completed tasks, projects, and work in progress. Help management understand and systematically study business challenges. Range from informal bulleted lists to 200 pages. May be presented orally or digitally as pdf files. Informational reports: present data without analysis or recommendation; writers collect and organize facts (ex. trip, compliance, routine operations report) Analytical reports: provide data or findings, analyses, and conclusions include recommendations, if requested. If readers may be disappointed or hostile. Controversial or complex reports (especially to outsiders) Electronic databases: abi/inform, lexisnexis academic, factiva, ebsco. Web search tools: google, bing, yahoo, search, ask. com, infosearch, dogpile. Cherry pick: go through data, use direct quotes, do not insert direct interview. Record all major ideas from various sources on separate note cards. Consider using one card colour for direct quotes and a different colour for paraphrases and summaries. Put the original source material side when summarizing.
