POST: Week 5, Day 3, Friday, September 26, 2008

This is the checklist you need to follow in preparing your final version of paper #1.

1. The document should be in GOOGLE documents and I should be added as a collaborator.
2. The title of the link should be Paper #1.
3. The paper should have a title such as "Feasibility Study: Country 1 and Country 2."
4. Under the title you should list yourself as the person who prepared the report.
5. In terms of format, there should be five major sections: Overview, Country 1, Country 2, and Discussion and Recommendation and References.
6. Each section should have a heading. The headings and the title of the paper should be in different format than the text of the paper. Read pp. 318-320 in the handbook for more on this.
7. Each section (except the first one , the overview) should have multiple small paragraphs.
8. Paragraphs should NOT be indented.
9. Double space between paragraphs.
10. Each paragraph should start with a clear topic sentence.
11. Restrict yourself to one point per paragraph.
12. In the OVERVIEW section, you should indicate the purpose of the report, the countries examined, and the source used to get material.
13. In the COUNTRY section, you should introduce the country briefly and discuss information of most use to the CEO of Freeplay: the government of the country, the economy, population information, information about energy, information about communication infrastructures, information about the kind of weather and climate exists in the country.
14. In the DISCUSSION AND RECOMMENDATION section, you should START with the recommendation and explain your recommendation with a discussion of several paragraphs. In those paragraphs, you should discuss why you think a country is a good place to do business and why you think a country is NOT a good place to do business.
15. In the REFERENCES section, you should reference the CIA World Factbook. See #28 on p. 264 for more on how to make a reference for the World Factbook.
16. You should edit your work carefully for major grammar errors. I suggest you keep sentences short and that you pay attention to the tense and subject-verb agreement of verbs.
17. Spell check your document.
18. Send the document to me via Google, in the message, include a brief note written as you would write to your boss. I suggest you use phrases such as:

In the following link, you will find. . . .

or

Attached to this message is a link that. . . .

Briefly describe what you are sending me. Why should I care? Does the report contain valuable information that Freeplay needs to consider?

Remember to end the email message with your name.

I'll need this document by Monday night at 7 p.m.