General Instructions: In this activity, you will write a series of short reports in response to a scenario. You will need to decide upon the appropriate report format (memo or letter) depending upon the circumstances of the report. You will need to exercise judgment regarding the information to include in (and exclude from) your reports. In some cases, the scenario may not provide all of the information necessary and you may need to create and add information.
Your reports will be assessed upon the selection of the correct report type for the situation, the correct formatting of your report, the use of an appropriate rhetorical strategy for each situation, the inclusion of appropriate information, and adherence to the rules of grammar, usage, spelling, and punctuation.
Before beginning to write, you should review the textbook readings for this module, plus the online resources for Module 3.
Phase 1
You are Willie Spelvin, Head Groundskeeper of the Evergreen Golf Course, Metropolis, Illinois. In May of this year, you were asked by Melvin Gancer, General Manager of the golf course, to research and recommend the best model of leaf blower to buy for use on the course. It is now September, and you need to report your progress to Melvin.
Facts: Ever Green is a full 18-hole course covering 30 acres. It is located within a larger, 300-acre area which is heavily forested. You have 15 workers on your grounds crew. In addition to leaves in the Autumn, the crew has to deal with grass clippings in the Summer. Melvin has given you a budget of $7,500 maximum to equip your whole crew with new leaf blowers.
You have researched whats availableyou will need to supply the details on what you have done to conduct that researchand have found that:
