Research Summary on Lack of Public Transportation in Tampa Memorandum

This project asks you to do workplace research into 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), 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. Once you have selected a problem, you will research the problem, to include the following topics:

the problem i selected is THE LACK OF TRANSPORTATION IN TAMPA

• 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 at USF/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.

To conduct your research you may wish to use any of the following methods and resources, or anything else that helps you explain the scope of your problem:

• Newspapers (local, university, national)
• Reports from government agencies, universities, and/or NGOs
• Scholarly research
• Facts and statistics compiled by government agencies and/or NGOs or USF
• Interviews with experts and/or impacted individuals
• Surveys (social media makes doing surveys easy)

Deliverables

Major Deliverable

• 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 at USF/In the Local Community
  • Causes of the Problem
  • Impacted Population
  • Works Cited