Team Project: Progress Memo| Graded

Directions

For the last four weeks, you have been working as a team to write a proposal report in response to a request for proposal (RFP) from a university (your team’s choice). You will now write a team progress report to update your instructor on your progress, allowing feedback to be provided. Please access the following document for more information: Progress Report Assignment.

Parameters

• Your proposal should be written in the memo format and contain the following sections:
  1. Introduction: Introduce the university whose RFP the team has been researching. Explain the team’s choice of that particular university. Note that you will be able to recycle some of the text from your team proposal
  2. Work Completed: Identify all the work that has been completed. Provide specific information about the research and analysis that has been completed and the text that has been produced. Remember to show, not tell. Briefly highlight important research findings
  3. Work Remaining: Identify all the work that is still remaining and outline how the team plans to complete it on time
  4. Analysis: Evaluate the team’s current status. Is the project on schedule? Does the research completed so far support initial expectations? What, if any, challenges has the team faced, and how has it fared?
  5. Conclusion: Reassure your audience (in this case, the instructor) that the project will be completed on time. You are working on a course project and have a non-negotiable deadline; you must complete the project on time to receive credit for the course. However, if you were working in a different situation and faced a challenge that prevented you from submitting the final proposal on time or within the original budget, you would let your audience know
  6. Attachments: Attach an updated Gantt chart. You may also attach preliminary research findings, samples of graphics, and rough drafts of sections of the final proposal

• The progress report body should be about two pages (single spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font). Attachments will increase the overall length of the submitted progress report
• This assignment is due on Sunday by 11:59 p.m. ET

Plagiarism

You are expected to write primarily in your own voice, using paraphrase, summary, and synthesis techniques when integrating information from class and outside sources. Use an author’s exact words only when the language is especially vivid, unique, or needed for technical accuracy. Failure to do so may result in charges of Academic Dishonesty.

Overusing an author’s exact words, such as including block quotations to meet word counts, may lead your readers to conclude that you lack appropriate comprehension of the subject matter or that you are neither an original thinker nor a skillful writer.