Complete an Executive Summary
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. (500-600 Word Count)
Executive summaries are standalone reports. They should make complete sense without reference to any outside source (except the article itself).
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 are flawless. They impress by presenting no visual/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.
Open a Word Document; Center a heading at the top: Executive Summary
Single Spaced; 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 topic, 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.
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