Exam 10: Understanding and Planning Reports and Proposals

"To identify potential markets for our new chocolate chip cookies," is a good statement of purpose for informational reports. Which of the following is a good statement of purpose for analytical reports?

Proposals can be of two general categories: ________ proposals.

"To update the board of directors on the progress of the research project," explains why you are preparing the report. This would typically be the ________.

Focusing on the introduction is often the best approach when you're addressing a receptive audience.

You are a customer in the luxury car market. Do you feel that your suggestions will be better received by the producers of these cars if they ask you to fill an online survey form, which declares that your feedback is valuable to the organization, or if somebody from the organization interviewed you face-to-face? Explain your answer.

Reports that judge the merits of past decisions are ________ reports.

________ reports contain data, facts, and feedback, but not analysis or recommendations.

Many companies collect and share research results in a variety of computer-based systems, known generally as ________ management systems.

Veena is conducting secondary research for her report and has exhausted most of the online resources available to her. Which other secondary source of information should she consider?

In an informational report, ________ is the method of organizing by topical category, such as sales, profit, cost, or investment.

After a thorough analysis of the existing payroll management system, you have come up with multiple action points with details about where these changes should be implemented and by whom. In this analytical report, would you focus on conclusions or recommendations? Explain your answer. Note that your action points could radically change the efficiency of the system, if implemented. However, since the changes are going to ruffle a time-tested system, they may be received with skepticism. If you sense that your readers will not receive these changes well, how would you modify your approach?

________ proposals refers to proposals that are generally prepared at the request of external parties that require a product or a service.

Executive dashboards are essentially super-summarized reports.

In interviews, open-ended questions that can't be answered with a simple yes or no can provide deeper insights, opinions, and information.

Documents that present persuasive recommendations to audiences, often involving investments or purchases are ________.

Plagiarism is expressing someone else's ideas in your own words.

When selecting people to participate in a survey, the most critical task is getting a ________ sample of the entire population in question.

You do not have to cite a source for knowledge that's generally known among your readers or is a well-known fact.

Search tools work in similar ways, and you can generally get predictable results, even if you don't know how each one operates.

________ range from brief descriptions of business procedures to manuals that run dozens or hundreds of pages.