8.11 Activities For Further Reflection
Activities and Exercises
- Look online to find a report. See if you can identify the parts of the report that we’ve discussed. If it’s organized in a different way, why do you think that is? What is the author trying to accomplish?
- Find an essay or project that you’ve done in another class. Try writing a short Executive Summary for it. How did writing an Executive Summary change the way you looked at the material? How did you decide what to put in the Executive Summary?
- Find a famous report online, such as The Mueller Report or the Final Report of the National Inquiry into the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. What tone does the report have? How does it try to persuade its audience? How does it use evidence?
- Remix something for an audience who speaks a different language or is part of a different culture.
- Come up with two different concepts or ideas that you’ve learned in two different classes, then see how many ways you can combine them together.
Attribution
“Chapter 11: Activities For Further Reflection” and “Chapter 14: Activities For Further Reflection” from Business Writing For Everyone by Arley Cruthers are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
