BUSI 1020U Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Scope Statement, Formal Language
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Long formal reports might include a transmittal, executive summary, table of contents with list of illustrations, the body of the report itself, and conclusions and. Use apa or mla documentation according to the standards of your discourse community. All reports should include an overview, to preview the report"s contents for the reader. In a formal report, this overview is called a summary or executive summary. Summary: sums up the whole report and includes conclusions and recommendations, goes first, on a separate page, is about one-tenth the length of the whole report. The purpose statement includes the situation the report addresses, the investigations it summarizes, and the rhetorical purposes (to explain, to describe, to recommend). The scope statement identifies the topics the report covers. Limitations: factors or problems that limit the scope of the report or the validity of the recommendations. Assumptions: statements whose truth you assume, and that you use to prove your ideas.
