Writing Task/Purpose
Your goal with this research project is to produce an argumentative (thesis-driven) researched/documented final report of 8-10 pages (not counting appendices or Works Cited page/s) in which you present a focused, engaging, and fully-developed assessment of and set of recommendations to improve the “site” you chose at City Tech. Your goal is to enter into the conversation surrounding a debatable/complicated issue and, through traditional academic research and fieldwork (ethnographic/qualitative research) to stake out an informed position on this issue and present a series of realistic, context-specific recommendations for improvement.Your write-up should be double-spaced, with Times New Roman 12-inch font, 1 inch margins, and page numbers (with group members’ last names on each page).The Final Report should include the following components (in the following order):

• Cover Page
• Table of Contents
  Written Report (8-10 full pages; images can certainly be included if they are relevant/discussed, but they don’t count towards this length, and neither does the Works Cited pages/s or the Appendices); written in the 3rd person; use a mix of quotation, summary, and paraphrase for your sources
• Introduction (overview of issue, significance/relevance/stakes, relevant background info. + local/City Tech context, with research/sources/citations)
• Presentation/discussion/analysis of sources/data (remember, your fieldwork–observations and surveys–are sources too!)
• Recommendations: these must be local/context-specific, supported, realistic, and discussed/supported adequately (they should emerge from your discussion of the issue/research in the previous sections). Your recommendation/s can be multi-tiered (such as including both short-term and long-term recommendations, suggestions that involve both individual responsibility and systemic changes).
• Works Cited page/s
• Use MLA style for the Works Cited and also your in-text citations. As a City Tech student you have access to EasyBib for citation, if you chose to use it. You should also consult the Writing Resources on our course site. And, of course, you have already done a lot of these citations from your annotated bibliography, so if they are already correct, you can cut/paste from there.
• Appendices (clearly label these, and refer to them within the body/discussion of the write-up):

A. Observations
B. Survey: survey questions
C. Survey: stats & results
D. Updated Annotated Bibliography (for this, refer back to the guidelines provided earlier in the semester). This should be revised from the earlier version, and should include more recent research.