5372 Class Notes 8/27

Try to post to webboard by SUnday night

Relatively little scholarship has been done about how lit reviews are conducted
Reports are counterpart of/to a manual

Reports reduce/squeeze data down into knowledge (hands/Zeno)

Where do the questions in a report come from?

Organizational reports are designed to influence public policy

Definitions/glossaries are standard parts of reports and they are driven by audience

Crosswalk: a blending of multiple tets, etc., to compare where they overlap, agree, disagree, do not cover, etc.

Knowledge is located by:
1. best practices in work place
2. students: bring methods/knowledge from education/training into the jobsite
3. written documents in the acadademy

Reports in the workplace are another way that knowledge is built