project title: Traffic Congestion in Tampa

This project asks you to do workplace research into a local problem impacting a city or the surrounding community. Your goal for this project is to describe a local problem in detail using as much information as you can gather from as many different sources as are useful. That means you are looking at research gathered by others (e.g., government agencies, non-profit organizations, professional and academic experts, as well as local sources from the immediate community), but also you will gather your own data by asking the impacted population for their perspective. You will produce a memo that reports your findings, giving readers a robust understanding of the local problem you have researched. NOTE: You should not offer a solution to the problem. Your task, in this Project, is simply to provide a detailed explanation of the problem

you will research the problem, to include the following topics:

Background information: Put the problem in context. What does the audience need to know to understand why the problem is a problem?

Explanation of the problem In the local community: Describe the local problem in detail. What is happening here?

• Causes of the problem: Describe the factors contributing to the problem’s occurrence. Why is the problem happening?
• Impacted Population: Describe the people most directly impacted by the problem. Who is the problem happening to? Be specific. Target a local population that could benefit from intervention.
• ## First part:
• Write a paragraph that explains your audience. Imagine that you are writing this work to your project team at a workplace. 

Questions to answer:

Who is your target audience? (Name the individual or group within a specific organization)

What do they do? 

Why are they the right audience?

• How will the content of your report be alerted or selected based on this audience?
• ## Second part: Research Map and Plan
• List the four major headings for the research project:
• Background

Explanation of Problem

Causes of Problem

Impacted Populations

• 2. For each heading, answer the following:
• What information do you have so far? (List sources with brief discussion of each)
• What information do you still need to find? (Explain and discuss)
• How will you get the information you need? (Where might you look? Can this information be found via secondary research? Will you need to conduct your own primary research? Etc.)

3. Using this map, create a Research Plan including:

Your research priorities for this week (What research is most important? What will you work on first? Etc.)

• A timeline for your remaining research (When/how will you conduct this research?)
• A plan for contingencies (What will you do if you can’t find your information
• ## Third part:

A report in memo format that describes your problem in detail using all the research you have conducted. The memo should have the following section headings:

Background Information

• Explanation of the Problem In the Local Community
• Causes of the Problem
• Impacted Population(s)