Recommendation Reports

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Recommendation Reports

• By Jennifer Bowie
• For Business Writing

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What are Recommendation Reports?

• Recommendation Reports
• Answer the question What should we choose
• Compare two or more choices
• Present and interpret data
• Draw conclusions
• Make recommendations

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What are the parts? Part 1

• Introduction/Overview brief section (a paragraph
  or so) providing
• immediate orientation and overview of the report
• the background (short summary)
• main point and purpose of report
• summary of the findings and recommendations

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What are the parts? Parts 2 3

• Background Provides details about what lead to
  the report
• Requirements and Criteria
• Present and discusses the requirements or
  criteria you will use to evaluate your choices
• Discuss the relative importance of each criterion

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What are the parts? Parts 4 5

• Discussion of the Options
• Present the choices you will be evaluating
• Explain how you choose these choices
• Provide brief descriptions of the choices
• Comparison and Evaluation
• Begin with an explanation of your methods of
  inquiry
• Evaluate the choices by applying the criteria,
  you may choose to do this criterion by criterion
  or choice by choice (the former is recommended)
• Conclude each evaluation section with either a
  summary of the evaluations (if doing a choice by
  choice comparison) or a statement of the best
  choice (if if doing a criterion by criterion
  comparison)

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What are the parts? Parts 6 7

• Conclusions Unlike other conclusion sections,
  this one will probably not be short
• Summarizes and restates conclusions so far,
  starting with the individual conclusions for each
  evaluation
• Settles any conflicts by presenting secondary
  conclusions, which balance out conflicting
  individual conclusions
• Present and defend a final conclusion
• Recommendations
• Echo the most important conclusions leading to
  the recommendation
• States the final recommendations
• Include the benefits of the recommendations and
  any drawbacks

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The End!