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details each part of a business report

Business reports are documents that are used internally and externally. Managers often delegate the preparation of internal reports to subordinates; therefore, most reports go up to higher ranks in the organization.

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A humorous and actual good outline for what a video resume should be. The content is terrible but format wise it is appealing.

Formal Report This website provides tables and graphics along with detailed text about the proper way to format a written report for technical writing purposes. The most important message that can be taken away from this site is that in order to have a successful report, each component must be proper placed and present.

This is a great website about formal reports, how they should look and what they should contain. I know this webpage is pretty long but it contains alot of good information about comprising formal reports.

Nice simple outline example of a formal report. Summary of Points made in the Body of Report"

This is a very simple outline of how a formal report should be formatted. For a quick reference this is a great site to look at!

This video consisted of many stats about how quickly new media has been evolving and expanding. I love this statistics format because it provides amazing facts that don't take much time for me to read and comprehend. This helped me to better understand where technology was, is, and where it's going. This also helped me understand some more facts about new media while keeping my full attention

This goes over more of the specifics as to how to write insturctios in a web page format. Very informative

CONTRAST. This website also deals a lot with what contrast is but it mostly highlights why it's necessary for a format to have contrast in it. I like this website a lot and think that it's very straight to the point and concise with its purpose. 

BoD Chapter 1: This page lists 21 formatting characteristics that are based on/ affected by your target audience. As chapter 1 states, deciding who your audience is and knowing about their demographics is one of the first steps in web design.

A list of guidelines to assist in writing, formatting and sending emails includes writing IM, Chat, Blogs, Forums, and Message Boards.

NETIQUETTE. The title of the website says it all. 101 Email Etiquette tips for various parts/types of emails, including format, attachments, forwarding, cc'ing and bcc'ing, etc. Very useful. 

New Media: This is Wikipedia's definition of new media, in which accessibility and interactive abilities are prominent factors. This page provides a history and definition of the term and includes the various uses and effects of new media.

Defines new media and has links to further define key words in definition. Links you to our scholars write about new media, even Manovich.

"New media is a broad term in media studies that emerged in the latter part of the 20th century which refers to on-demand access to content any time, anywhere, on any digital device, as well as interactive user feedback, creative participation and community formation around the media content." This is a quick and easy resource to reference new media.

When you are selecting a font for your resume, the font size should be between 10 and 12 to allow for readability. Your name (which should be placed at the top of your resume) can be slightly larger.

Serif is just a word that translates to "tails" on the letters. For instance, Times New Roman, which is pictured below, a popular font in most word processing programs, is a serif font.

When writing a report use lists when possible, use headings and subheadings to separate topics, use clear typefaces and use white space effectively.