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Paper #3: Request to Conduct Research (Research Proposal) for your final business report with an annotated bibliography

Prepare a 500- to 750-word letter or memo to your proposal decision-maker(s) requesting permission to pursue research to develop your proposal idea. In your correspondence, provide your decision-maker(s) with justification for the research project. Include an outline of the benefits you believe the proposed idea will bring to the organization. Your document must make it clear you are contacting the decision-maker(s) to request permission to move forward with your research. You should also provide a time line and description of your resources for your decision maker. 

Note: You use a letter format when the recipient is outside your organization. You use a memo format when the recipient is in the same organization as you are. 

Your memo or letter must be persuasive. You must identify and justify the problem you are researching and for which you are making recommendations. You also want to show how these problems are lowering productivity or costing the company money. You need to include some of the parts you would include in your final report, e.g., your credentials. And you need to include at least five descriptive annotated bibliographic entries to demonstrate that you understand how to do this type of reporting. Don’t know what a descriptive annotated bibliography is? See the example in Doc Sharing. 

Grading Criteria (Rubric) for Paper 3:

meets assignment criteria, deadline, style, and format 
no fewer than 500 words; no more than 750 
correct choice of memo or letter format 
describe the problem or project you want to work on and explain its significance 
summarize research you are already aware of, citing its sources 
tell where additional information may be obtained and how much you need 
Sufficiency and appropriate integration of information and research including Web sources 
clarity of controlling idea and organization 
uses headings and subheadings 
communicates intent and content to audience 
provides relevant facts and evidence, including a time line 
recommends specific action in the closing 
uses APA style correctly within the text as well as in references 
describe the benefits of your research to your organization 
show "you" attitude (but not use the “you” point of view) 
maintain friendly, positive, confident, and professional diction and tone 
use emphatic, concise, fluent sentences; sentences are effective and varied in structure   
contains no mechanical errors 
 

 






Model Outline for Assignment Three, Request to Conduct Research 

(Please note that you are NOT required to write the proposal in outline form. This is just to let you know what should be included and how to organize this.) 


I.                   Introduction - Request time to investigate the issue and briefly establish the need to do something about the issue.

II.                 (not necessarily in this order): Describe the problem or project you want to work on and explain its significance

III.              Summarize research you are already aware of (citing the source)

IV.               Tell where additional information may be obtained (and how much)      

V.                 Describe the benefits of your research to your organization

VI.               Conclusion - Summarize, provide time frame for reply  

Prepare a 500- to 750-word letter or memo to your proposal decision-maker(s) requesting permission to pursue research to develop your proposal idea. In your correspondence, provide your decision-maker(s) with justification for the research project. Include an outline of the benefits you believe the proposed idea will bring to the organization. Your document must make it clear you are contacting the decision-maker(s) to request permission to move forward with your research. You should also provide a time line and description of your resources for your decision maker. Note: You use a letter format when the recipient is outside your organization. You use a memo format when the recipient is in the same organization as you are. Your memo or letter must be persuasive. You must identify and justify the problem you are researching and for which you are making recommendations. You also want to show how these problems are lowering productivity or costing the company money. You need to include some of the parts you would include in your final report, e.g., your credentials. And you need to include at least five descriptive annotated bibliographic entries to demonstrate that you understand how to do this type of reporting. DonÂ’t know what a descriptive annotated bibliography is? See the example in Doc Sharing. 


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