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TYPES OF TECHNICAL
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| Discuss the practicality, a d possibly the suitability a d
compatibility of a give project, both i physical a d
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| Tech ical Backgrou d
| Backgrou d o the Situatio
| Requireme ts a d Criteria
| Discussio of the Optio s
| Category-by-Category Compariso s
| Co clusio s
| Recomme datio or ©i al Opi io
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ntroduction
| the i troductio , i dicate that the docume t is a
feasibility report & state its purpose. Also, provide
a overview of the co te ts of the report.
| ©or some feasibility reports, you'll also be able to
discuss the situatio a d the requireme ts i the
i troductio s.
| f there is little to say about them, you ca merge
them with the i troductio , or make the
i troductio two paragraphs lo g.
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Technical Background
| Some feasibility reports may require some tech ical
discussio i order to make the rest of the report
mea i gful to readers.
| The dilemma with this ki d of i formatio is whether to put
it i a sectio of its ow or to fit it i to the compariso
sectio s where it is releva t.
| ©or example, a discussio of power a d speed of laptop
computers is goi g to ecessitate some discussio of
RAM, megahertz, a d processors. Should you put that i a
sectio that compares the laptops accordi g to power a d
speed? Should you keep the compariso eat a d clea ,
limited strictly to the compariso a d the co clusio ?
| Maybe all the tech ical backgrou d ca be pitched i its
ow sectio ²either toward the fro t of the report or i a
appe dix.
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`ategory-by-`ategory `omparisons
| O e of the most importa t parts of a feasibility or recomme datio
report is the compariso of the optio s.
| Remember that you i clude this sectio so that readers ca check your
thi ki g a d come up with differe t co clusio s if they desire.
| This should be ha dled category by category, rather tha optio by
optio . f you were compari g laptops, you'd have a sectio that
compared them o cost, a other sectio that compared them o
battery fu ctio , a d so o .
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have a sectio that discussed everythi g about optio A,
a other that discussed everythi g about optio B, a d so o .
| That would ot be effective at all, because the compariso s must still
be made somewhere.
| (See below for a schematic illustratio of these two approaches to
compariso s.)
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`onclusions
| The co clusio s sectio of a feasibility or
recomme datio report is i part a summary or
restateme t of the co clusio s you have already
reached i the compariso sectio s.
| this sectio , you restate the i dividual co clusio s,
for example, which model had the best price, which
had the best battery fu ctio , a d so o .
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