business exercise

This assignment is the first activity related to your report.
Using the template attached enter the topic # and description of the topic in the text box field.
Next, determine your research question. Refer to The Human Find example on page 128. Enter your question on the text box field below Step 1.
Step 2 requires you to think about how you will go about researching the data you need to answer your research question. A good rule of thumb is to determine the purpose of the report. In other words, what is the report’s objective, aim, or goal? Enter the purpose in the text box field below Step 2.
Now that you’ve defined the problem and identified your purpose, you need to develop a research strategy to address the data, information, or knowledge gaps using sub-questions. These sub-questions will help you determine what factors you need to research/investigate and determine what subject areas you must look into to solve the problem. This is where you will generate the outline using the factors you need to research.
What factors a problem involves can vary widely, but we can identify three common types.
First, they may be subtopics of the overall topic about which the report is concerned.
Second, they may be hypotheses that must be tested.
Third, in problems that involve comparisons, they may be the bases on which the comparisons are made.
The problem-solving case studies for your research reports are all evaluation studies, so you will probably use the Bases of Comparison factors.
When the problem concerns evaluating something, either singularly or in comparison with other things, you should look for the bases for the evaluation. In other words, you should determine what characteristics you will evaluate and the criteria you will use to evaluate them.
To perform this assignment, I will use the topic chosen by the student whose sample report is available under the Analytical Report Instructions