Technical Report: THE EVOLUTION OF TECHNOLOGY AND ITS IMPACT ON SOCIETY Below are the instructions & resources needed to complete this technical report. Use Planning and Organizing Proposals and Technical

Reports (pages 18-23) as your primary guide to completing this assignment, a technical report. This is the description of a technical report taken from that document: The purpose of a technical report is to present factual information gathered through research or an empirical study. A typical technical report defines a research question (open-ended), describes a step-by-step methodology for answering that question, presents findings, draws conclusions, and makes recommendations. A report needs to answer some or all of the following kinds of questions: ● What research question was being studied? ● What research methods were used to answer the research question? ● What were the findings of the researchers? ● What conclusions can be drawn from those findings? What actions do the researchers recommend? Reports can be written for external or internal purposes in a company or organization. Related to this is the understanding of who your intended audience is and what their needs, values, and expectations for the report might be. Identify a specific, real-world audience for the report. Your report should include the following sections (in order): ● cover page and table of contents ● introduction (In addition to the suggested approach to the Introduction section on page 21 of Planning and Organizing Proposals and Technical Reports (pages 18-23) I recommend taking the time to explain to yourself and your reader why the research question is valid, i.e. appropriately narrow, non-obvious, and worthy of researching. In other words, if the answer to the research question is readily obvious with cursory research, then either re-frame or discard it.) literature review (located here or within the results section as a subsection/subheading) • methodology (including materials, subjects, procedure--procedure for primary and secondary research) ● results (includes primary and possibly secondary research findings, aka literature review, if not already placed between the intro and methodology) discussion (Within the Discussion section, effectively compare and contrast your primary research data with the secondary research you gathered. Establish well-grounded inferences based on your research and draw logical conclusions from this analysis. Also, report any limitations to your primary and secondary research procedure and/or results. The Discussion is the heart of the report; everything preceding the Discussion is predominantly info collection and reporting. The discussion section is an analysis and synthesis of the results, not a summary. conclusions and recommendations (Both! As in, what did you conclude from the analysis in the Discussion? What do you recommend based on these conclusions?) • concluding paragraph (included under Recommendations heading) ● works cited page (MLA) or References (APA) • appendix (which includes all of the raw data from your primary research, like interview/survey questions and responses) Again, reference Planning and Organizing Proposals and Technical Reports for advice on how to develop each section and how best to organize the report. Other key requirements: ● You must incorporate a minimum of five reputable, relevant, and representative sources: it is strongly advised that four sources be library database articles (peer-reviewed, newspaper, other academic), university (.edu) or federal government (.gov) websites, or current books and the fifth must be a primary source (Pitfalls Of Primary Research Links to an external site.), like an interview, survey, or even an experiment. If conducting a survey, the population surveyed should have some knowledge of the issue you are asking them about and the sample size (30+) should allow you to make generalizations with some degree of confidence. Whether you conduct a survey or interview, you should include all questions (Creating Good Interview and Survey Questions Links to an external site.) and all answers in an appendix to follow the works cited page. Do not cite the survey in your Works Cited or References page but you should title the survey, indicate the population size and demographics, sample size, and dates the survey was administered in the methodology and/or results sections. No matter the secondary source medium, like the web or databases, it is your responsibility to assess the source's credibility by determining who is funding the research (conflict of interest?), whether or not the author accounts for multiple perspectives (bias/slant?), whether the author's cited sources are credible (ethos?), whether the author's credentials match the subject of the article (ethos?), and whether the source is current and relevant. Keep in mind, a minimum of 4 sources must be summarized in the Literature Review (secondary sources) and possibly more if you intend to include and analyze extra sources in the Discussion. • Also, include original and/or borrowed graphic elements (chart, photo, illustration). Embed the graphic into the report as relevant support for your point/assertions. Caption and correctly cite all graphics. • Document all of these sources (including borrowed visuals) with in-text, parenthetical citations and works cited (MLA) or references (APA) page. • One of your body paragraphs, preferably a key point you are trying to establish, must be arranged deductively (major premise, minor premise(s), and an inferentially derived conclusion that clearly follows from the premises). The discussion or recommendations sections are the most conducive to this requirement. The "Logic in Writing." resource is most useful for fulfilling this requirement. ● Define key terms, especially jargon and connotative terms. ● Maintain objectivity, in part, by avoiding 1st person point of view. ● The Introduction, Methodology, Discussion, Conclusions and Recommendations sections as well as concluding paragraphs should be present-tense. The primary research results sub-section should be past-tense. • Appeal to logos while establishing your ethos (error free, plagiarism free, well-supported, nuanced, fair-minded, well-organized report). ● Document length is 7 to 8 pages single-spaced (from intro to conclusion), not including the title page, table of contents, works cited page, glossary, or appendix. This page range, neither longer or shorter, is mandatory. ● DON'T USE A TEMPLATE LOOK AT THE SAMPLES BELOW. Samples of the Technical Report Assignment Below: Technical Report Technical Report Technical Report