ENGL 202D Major Assignment: Formal Analytical Report Overview For your major course project, you will research and write an analytical report that analyzes an option or options for a realistic business situation and recommends a course of action for a theoretical client, customer, manager, or other professional entity similar to the ones you expect to encounter in your professional future. In order to do so, envision yourself early in your professional career. Imagine a theoretical (but realistic and entirely plausible) professional situation, in which you must analyze one or more option (products, actions, techniques, theoretical approaches, applications, etc.) for a professional entity you are either employed by, hired by, or obligated to in some manner. This could be your boss, an agency providing grant money, a client you have been hired by, etc. (The term “client” will be used below and in the Proposal assignment prompt to refer to this entity.) You will detail your rhetorical situation and seek permission to move forward in your Proposal assignment. See the Proposal prompt for additional details. After your initial Proposal is complete, you will continue forward with the report project. You will upload your Analytical Report to Canvas as a Microsoft Word document by the due date, complete with graphics and visuals, appropriate front and end matter, as well as a transmittal memo (cover memo). Analytical Report Assignment For the analytical report assignment, you will write a document that analyzes an option or options to solve a problem or create a beneficial opportunity for a theoretical client and ultimately makes a recommendation to the client. The analysis can be a comparative, a causal, or a feasibility analysis (or a combination of the three types). Although you are doing your analysis for a theoretical report and client, the option(s) you will be analyzing must be real, or have a substantial basis in reality because it will need to include real research. In other words, the situation (your role, your client, the context for the report) is imagined, but all of the information needs to be real. Spend some time early on brainstorming and investigating your options and creating a client, rhetorical situation, and realistic choices to fit the guidelines of this assignment. It is also imperative to replicate a plausible situation, imitating what you can expect in your professional future as closely as you can.