This is a business writing assignment.write one full page single spaced executive summery. the prompt is uploaded below and there is some tips will help you how to write the executive summery.
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Executive Summary Assignment
Instructions
As a business student, select a business journal (i.e. Journal of Management). Searching the database for an article using
ProQuest, EBSCO or any other of your choice, select an article related to a business topic you may be interested in. The
article must be at least five pages long and a subject of interest that you prefer. Complete an executive summary. For
Executive Summary Notes See Pages 477 & 484 of your textbook.
Required Texts:
1. Mary Ellen Guffey & Dana Loewy. Business Communication: Process & Product, 8th edition + Aplia (bundle).
Cengage, 2014.
Make sure to identify the author, article title, journal, and date of publication. Give an explanation what the author
intended to do in the study or article. Summarize three or four of the most important findings of the study or article.
Summarize any recommendations made. Include a conclusion statement.
Purpose
• To understand the purpose and structure of an executive summary.
• To be able to analyze, interpret, and summarize relevant information in a formal report.
• To develop writing skills necessary in a formal report.
Student Outcome Measures
Students will assume a role of an assistant to an executive or manager and be able to provide summarizations of formal
reports. They will learn how to analyze, interpret, and summarize formal reports to their direct supervisor in a concise
and tactful executive summary.
Guidelines
• Your current Executive summary may not exceed one page.
• Executive summaries are standalone reports. They should make complete sense without reference to any outside
source, including the original source.
• Executive summaries do not contain quotations, references, or examples. They merely present the key concepts of
the argument made in the original source.
• Executive summaries must be flawless. They impress the reader by presenting no visual or conceptual barriers in the
document.
Format
• Use your own words; do not copy text from the article.
• Do not write a memo or a letter.
• Center a heading at the top: Executive Summary
• In left or right top margin type your name and a date.
• Use one-inch margins and size-12, serif-type fonts (Times New Roman, Palatino, etc.)
• Single Spaced; do not left indent; do not right justify your margin; leave 1 blank line between paragraphs.
• Spell check and proofread your work carefully.
• Write in the 3rd person (“He/she/it does xyz; they should do xyz…”).
Evaluation
You will be graded on the usual C.L.A.S.S. criteria: how well you address the problem, how literate your document is,
how aware you are of your audience, which strategies you employ to reach the reader, and what kind of tone you adopt
to that end.
HOW TO WRITE AN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
CONTENTS OF A SUMMARY
Include:
1. purpose (what the report, article, book etc. does—the report examines;
the author X discusses…)
2. essential points
3. conclusions/results
Leave out:
1. opinion (your own too) = unsupported/untenable/unarguable
assertions (something along the lines of “I like pizza”). ☺
2. new/external data
3. points irrelevant to the central argument
4. examples
5. background
6. footnotes, etc.
7. jargon
8. remarks indicating that you’re writing a summary
PROCESS OF WRITING A SUMMARY
Read the material and highlight the main points. (clues: headings)
Watch for key words and highlight.
Watch for words that indicate main points:
1. words that enumerate: first, second, initially, next
2. words that express causation: accordingly, as a result
3. words that signal essentials: basically, crucial, foremost
4. topic sentences: often at end or beginning of paragraph
Watch for words that indicate nonessentials:
1. words announcing opinion: I think, I believe, in my opinion
2. words pointing out examples: for instance, such as
Organize the information into a draft summary. Read through the draft and delete what
is unnecessary. Be sure you have included the results/ conclusions/main ideas.
Don’t piece your summary together from thinly disguised quotations from the text. In
other words, don’t copy! Rather, your summary needs to read smoothly and the
sentences should be logically connected. Do not use quotations, even those enclosed in
quotation marks, in your summary—paraphrase! You need to put the edited version
of the summary in your own words, if the author is someone other than you.
!
If the author is someone besides yourself, PUT THE EDITED VERSION IN
YOUR OWN WORDS (to avoid plagiarism!).
Papoulias – Fall 2014
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