Technical Writing Week 6 Assignment 1

Technical Writing – Week #6 Assignment 1

Creating a Progress Report

This week’s assignment focuses on Chapter 7: Progress Reports.

Progress reports document the status of a project.  These reports describe the various tasks that make up the project and analyze the progress that has been made toward completing each task (Finkelstein, Chapter 7, p 112)

Writing a progress report typically requires three things: review, describe, and evaluate (Finkelstein, Chapter 7, p 112).

In this assignment you will review a sample project plan and create progress report. The duration of the project plan is June 2005 – January 2006. The report will cover the months of June1 – September 30, 2005.

Part I.  Create a progress report

Download and read the Example Project Plan and complete the progress report template.

Source citations

Division of Information Technology (DoIT). (2007, March 7). Project Management Improvement Project.  Retrieved from: https://pma.doit.wisc.edu/DoIT%20Templates_Examples/Stage%203%20-%20Plan/Stage%203%20Plan%20Examples/Example%20-%20Project%20Plan,%20v2.2.doc

Finkelstein, L. (2008) Pocket Book of Technical Writing for Engineers and Scientists (3rd ed.) New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

Format Requirements:  Use Template for the Progress Report

Assignment checklist:

1.            Check that all elements of a progress report are included in your document

2.           Proofread and spell check your work