Informational Report Suggestions

Spoke about how to organize the information and where I will fit in each source and interview that I am supposed to use. Also discussed the 4 sources I will use and what type of source each one was, academic or non-academic. Need to get more information from my second interview.
Four main points:
1. need more scholarly sources
2. how to organize my paper
3. get more detailed interview answers
4. where to find better sources for my paper

Informational Report First Interview

I interviewed the assistant vice president of deposit operations at a bank for my first interview. The main things she has to write are levies, garnishments, and denied deposit slips. The frequency depends on when these things are needed, it could be daily, or biweekly. Levies and garnishments are written to customers who owe money to the state but wont pay, so she has to write to them to inform them their assets are frozen and being paid to the state. She writes denied deposit slips when a check that a customer tried to deposit bounced. Informal writing she does is email to coworkers, or notes taken during meetings. One example she gave me was taking notes at a meeting about a new banking app where checks could be deposited with a picture, and she wrote down notes on the directions and how to use the app.

Informational Report Sources

One of the sources I am going to use is an article from the New York Times that an economics professor from the University of Michigan. This is an academic source, written for a newspaper to inform anyone interested in the rise of the economy recently. This article presents date about the economy and whom the rise has really contributed to. He states that it is mostly limited to the top 1 percent. Another source I am using is also an article from the New York Times that is written from a economist that works for the New York Times. This is also an academic source informing reader of McDonalds and the business’s sales dip, and the appointment of a new chief executive.

The Art of Quoting

 “Eggs may be contaminated, either because there is oil in the sand high up on the beach at the nesting site, or because the adult turtles are oiled as they make their way across the oiled beach to the nesting site. Oiling of eggs may inhibit their development.” (www.conserveturtles.org n.d.)

This was one quote I used for a paper about sea turtles. To integrate this quote, I began writing about oil effecting sea turtles to lead into this. I explained it by saying what the oil can do to the sea turtle eggs. I used this quote because it went with the topic I was using in the paragraph about oil.

“The most serious threat caused by increased human presence on the beach is the disturbance to nesting females.” (www.conserveturtles.org n.d.)

To integrate this quote I began to bring up the problem of humans affecting see turtles. I explained this quote by saying how this affects the turtles and why it is a problem. It relates to my text because it states one serious issue that humans do to harm sea turtles

Information Report source #1

The first source that I am using is a non-academic source from the University of Wisconsin informing readers how to write a business letter. It is an instructional piece, but it is also formatted like a letter. This piece is a type of informational report because it is informing readers on writing a business letter.

This piece will help me on my paper because it explains one of the most important writing pieces that professionals have to do in a business career. It will help me explain to readers what it is and how it needs to be done. Since this is one of the most important writings a businessman has to do I feel it should be a big part of my informational report.

Interview Questions

Do you have to do much formal writing, if so what kind?

How do you go about communicating with other people in your field?

What is the most common thing for you to write?

How often do you have to write for your profession?

What kind of informal writing do you do?

Why is the writing you do unique to your profession?

Why do you have to write?

What do you keep in the back of your mind when writing?

Do you write to a certain audience?

What sources do you use and where do you find them?

What gives you credibility when you write?

Rhetorical Situation for Informational Report

The purpose of the Informational report is to increase the awareness of incoming college freshman of what the profession I choose to write about involves. The audience for the piece is incoming college freshman who may be considering the profession I choose to write about. The genre of the piece is an Informational Report.  My stance of the report will be objective because the main purpose of the piece is to provide information in regards to the profession I choose. The medium I will be using for this report is print.

Rhetorical Situation Main Points

Rhetorical situation

• ·      The circumstances that involves communication between people, speech or writing
• ·      The purpose, type, audience, opinion of a writing piece or conversation
• ·      Used to modify the perspectives of others
• ·      What the writer is attempting to accomplish or what causes the writer to enter the conversation