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Sept. 1


  • reports:
    • recommendation report: focuses on an advised course of action
    • evaluation report: analyzes information of some sort (personnel, financial data, solution options, etc.)
    • feasibility report: examines potential solutions, endorses one, and reveals its implications
    • progress and status reports: update on development of a project and a person's contribution to it
    • trip report: presents information obtained off site
    • personnel report: evaluates employees
    • economic justification: presents the reasoning behind costs


  • Ethics
    • plagiarism and IP violations
      • copyright
      • trademark
      • trade secret
      • invention
      • tangible research product
    • deliberately imprecise language
    • manipulation of numerical information
    • misleading illustrations
    • promotion of prejudice
    •  uncritical use of information