Fabiola A. Rivera-Blanco
ENGL 302
6/15/18
Parts of a Progress Report
Progress reports are organized in three ways: chronologically, tasks, and
recommendation support. When assembling a progress report in a business setting
you will most often approach it in chronological order. The chronological progress
report includes four parts: introduction, work completed, work to be completed,
and a conclusion.
The introduction is to use to summarize your progress and to reiterate the
intentions of your investigation. It should be short and straight to the purpose.
The work-completed section should be used to describe what you have got already
done. It is vital to be as specific as possible in order to support your claims and allow
the reader to understand the work you have written in the proposal. Also, describe
any problems that your team encountered and the way you fixed them.
The work to be completed section describes all the work that still needs to be done.
If you are more than three days late on the project, make sure to submit a brand
new schedule to confirm your audience that you are going to be able to meet the
deadline on time. If the reader desires to know information that you already found,
you might want to discuss your observations throughout the research or
preliminary conclusions that you may have.
The last section is the conclusion. It is used to express your confidence in having the
report by the deadline stated. This section does not have to be long, however, if you