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Communication and evidence-based writing · Course

Explain, substantiate and recommend

Choose honest denominators and assemble evidence for a concise recommendation.

Start with everyday situations, predict an outcome, and test your ideas. You need basic arithmetic, percentages and graph reading; explanations introduce additional ideas where needed. No coding or account is required. Every investigation has school, college and workplace extensions—you can choose any of them.

What you will learn

Create a clear instruction, honest chart specification, research paragraph and decision proposal with traceable evidence.

Before you begin

  • Read short prose and work with percentages.
  • No specialist writing background is assumed.
  • Draft quality and reasoning require review; numerical checks cover only their stated calculations.

Open any topic directly. Review functions and graphs whenever useful.

Choose your scope

The original two-investigation starter remains available. Choosing the full course adds its published lessons to your selected scope; your earlier work stays saved. Skipping does not count as completion or understanding.

Free exploration: no completion scope selected yet. Project reports and independent evidence are tracked separately.

Course outline

Choose a unit, then open a lesson on its own page. This outline lists the sequence; it does not combine the full lessons into one page.

Clear instructions and honest numbers2 lessons

Repair consequential ambiguity and name the population behind a percentage.

Repair an unclear instruction

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Which revision removes consequential ambiguity?

Two authored reader interpretations expose ambiguous actors, checks and deadlines. Write your own repaired draft in your investigation notes.

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Repair the survey headline

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Which people does a percentage actually describe?

Original fictional survey: invitees may respond, and respondents may report satisfaction. Nonresponse is unknown. Sliders retain requested counts. The model caps actual responses at invitations and actual satisfied respondents at actual responses; metrics, bars and traces use those actual counts.

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Evidence selection and chart design2 lessons

Select relevant evidence within space constraints and specify a chart without misleading geometry.

Build a brief from evidence

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Which evidence fits the decision and the available space?

Original fictional pilot: completion records, four interviews and timing observations describe different aspects of a product. Evidence bundles have explicit assumed word costs including context.

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Create an honest chart specification

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How does an axis floor change the apparent size of a difference?

Two observed quantities, 92 and 96, can be encoded as bars or points. Inspect geometry, then specify or sketch your own chart.

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Research reports and proposals2 lessons

Separate observation from causal claims and defend a recommendation against explicit constraints.

Separate a result from its explanation

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Can group composition explain a reported tool advantage?

Authored cohort comparison: experienced participants finish all tasks and new participants finish half. Tools have no causal effect in this fixture.

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Defend a proposal with trade-offs

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When does a faster process violate the service requirement?

Compare fictional service plans with setup time, per-case work and explicitly assumed unresolved-case rates.

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An evidence-backed improvement proposal

Prepare a before/after instruction, a claim-to-evidence table, a chart specification or attached chart, and a concise proposal about a fictional service. Preserve the original draft so a reviewer can inspect your revision decisions.

Save a report, compare captured evidence, and attempt three new cases. A completed report records submitted work; the rubric supports a separate human review of its quality.

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