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542 Writing Recommendation Reports

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Writers often need to decide As you may know, Vice President for Student Affairs Bremerton is conducting
where to present information a study to determine whether CMSU should select a single brand of clicker
in a technical document. This to be used in some lecture courses at CMSU. Clickers are used by students to
questionnaire could have ap- respond to questions posed by instructors in large lecture courses. If such a
peared in an appendix, as the choice were made, you might be required to purchase a clicker for use in some
two instructor questionnaires of your lecture courses. Following are some details:
did. However, because it is rela- 1. The university would seek to enter into a two-year contract with a
tively brief and readers are very manufacturer of the clicker systems. Although the university would
interested in student attitudes, hope to renew that contract so that the one clicker you purchase would
the writers decided to include it last for your entire career at CMSU, it is possible that you would need
in the body of the report. to purchase a new clicker as often as every two years.
2. You would be responsible for purchasing the batteries for your clicker.
Batteries generally last from six months to a year, and replacement
batteries cost approximately $3–6.
3. You would be responsible for replacing your clicker if you lose it.
We would appreciate your telling us what price you think would be
reasonable for the clicker unit. Please select one of the following responses,
and then hit the Submit button.
 $0. I don’t want to have to buy any clicker.
 Up to $20.
 Up to $40.
 Up to $60.
Thank you!
We made this questionnaire available for all undergraduate students because,
of the 11,324 students currently enrolled, only 832 had ever used a clicker
at CMSU. Because that number constituted only some 7 percent of the
total undergraduate population, we felt that it was not worth the expense of
separating out those who had used a clicker on campus.
We then field-tested the question with the three other members of SAAC. With
the authorization of Dr. Bremerton, we uploaded the survey to Qualtrics, and
then sent an e-mail to students, inviting them to respond to the question.

Task 4. Research the physical characteristics of the lecture halls
In performing Task 4, we sought to answer the following question: “Would
the physical characteristics of any of the large lecture halls affect the decision
whether to adopt clickers or restrict the university to a particular technology or
brand of clicker?”

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