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BA in Human Resource Mgmt. Management Report Proposal. The Writing Context. Occ a sion Topic Audience Purpose Writer. The Writer: Writing Process. Prewriting Drafting Revision Editing & Proofreading. The Writer: Writing Strategies. Cognitive Metacognitive Affective Social.
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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/