Information and Data Literacy 2 Preliminary (part 2 of 2)
Questions to be answered about
Analytics and AI-driven enterprises thrive in the Age of With: The culture catalyst
Data Collected - What do you know about the data that is used to develop the findings and
inferences that are being presented in this document:
1. What is the size of the sample?
2. Who were the participants sampled? (What types of organizational roles did they have?)
3. What do you know about the organizations the participants came from?
4. How was the data collected?
5. What is the margin of error for this data?
6. What is the confidence interval/level?
Now that you have reviewed the data presented, it is time to think about if it is relevant for the
people you are writing to.
Identify the audience and purpose of the memorandum:
7. Who is the memorandum written to? What is your relationship to them? Is there a
secondary audience?
8. What is the purpose of the memorandum? Include what you are providing a case for
and what you expect from the readers you are writing to. Write this statement as a draft
of your thesis.
Review the statistics and their utility using the answers from above:
9. What is the provided document organized to convey? Is this the same argument you are
making? In part or totally?
10. Do the organizations the data came from have anything in common with the fictitious
company you are part of and writing about?
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11. Did the information about the organizations come from people your audience would
value input from?
Identifying the statistics in the document
There are 6 figures in the document identify briefly what each one tells you.
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Identify the two most important figures for supporting your argument:
What point do the statistics from each of these figures present to support your argument?
Go through the document and highlight any place that the statistics are discussed in the written
text. Then identify the two points made clear in the text that are most important to the
argument you will have to make and briefly describe how they can be used in your argument
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Addressing a new audience on a familiar topic
The first element of the body of your IDL2 final document -- Probability and Statistics Use in
[Your Field] Division Services -- will remind executives of an important role of probability and
statistics in your field. In your IDL 1 assignment you presented this information to first year
college students. How will you present this information differently now that you are presenting
it to a different audience? Consider the following:
Wording: slang, technical language, precision, gendered language, respect, jargon, hedging,
abbreviations, shortened words, and acronyms
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Sentences: Passive voice, short, concise sentences
Document organization: strong thesis, preview and review, consistent ordering of information
between the preview/review/document body, use of titles, use of bullet points
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