Blog Posting #4. Progress Reports

Chapter 27 describes the common questions asked by the readers of progress reports and how reader centered writing process can result in effective progress reports adhering to the superstructure for reports that includes ways to correspond with readers' major questions. I have not written a progress report by myself, but my team has composed a progress report letting our client know the progress of our project. By taking the readers’ concern with the future into account, we wrote a progress report that shows the preliminary results of our projects. The superstructure for the progress report covered these topics: Introduction, problem, objectives, solution, schedule/management, and recommendation. In the first part of the report, we introduced ourselves as part of the team doing the particular project. The second part answers the question of the purpose of work and the work in progress. It explained how the project is ahead of schedule, and the results that we have produced. Next part inquired whether there needs to be any additional functionalities recommended by the client. We explained how things stand overall and welcomed recommendations to improve the project. At the end, we arranged a meeting with the reader and offered flexibility. We generally followed a persuasive and optimistic tone in the progress report.