Investigation Report on Addressing the Issue of a Textbook Requirement for the Effective Writing Strategies Course

Running Head: INVESTIGATION REPORT
Investigation Report
Name of the Student
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1INVESTIGATION REPORT
To: [e-mail]
From: [e-mail]
Date: 17. 7.2018
Subject: Addressing the Issue of a Textbook Requirement for the Effective Writing
Strategies Course
Dear Ms. Kelly Book,
This is to bring to your notice that the Effective Writing Strategies course that
is offered at the Communications Department of Conestoga College requires those
who sign up for this course to read a basic textbook, entitled Writing Effectively, as a
part of the course’s study requirements. The third edition of Writing Effectively was
extensively used in the previous semester, and the faculty members at the
Communications Department fully intend on making their students read this book
once again for the Effective Writing Strategies course in the upcoming semester. Yet
Oxford Publishers, the publishing house that is responsible for printing and
distributing this textbook to book sellers has come up with a new fourth edition of the
book, which they now wish to sell in place of the third edition. This report investigates
as to whether the Effective Writing Strategies course at Conestoga Communications
Department is likely to undergo any changes because of this transition. It also
inquires into the number of copies of Writing Effectively that will be required by
students enrolling for the Effective Writing Strategies course in upcoming semester
and whether more copies of the 3rd edition of Writing Effectively can be ordered and
used or not. The report is based on three interviews that were carried out with David
Book, the Bookstore manager, Mr. Hoan who is an instructor for the Effective Writing
Strategies course and Hector Mead, the administrative assistant at the
Communications Department in Conestoga College.
The Supply of the textbook “Writing Effectively” can turn out to be Problematic
The supply of the third edition of the Writing Effectively textbook is likely to
take a big hit as mentioned by David Book, the Bookstore Manager in Conestoga
College. Oxford Publishers has now decided to introduce a new fourth edition of this
textbook and all the existing copies have to be returned by the bookstore within a
period of four weeks, and before the start of the new semester, if the bookstore is to
receive and distribute the new edition. If the remaining copies of the third edition of
Writing Effectively are not returned to Oxford Publishers within the stipulated
timeframe then these books have to be sold by the Conestoga College bookstore in
the upcoming semester. If it is not possible to sell of all existing copies of this
textbook, the Communications Department at Conestoga College will be charged for
these books since the Conestoga Bookstore will no longer be allowed to return them
to Oxford Publishers. The bookstore therefore has to take a major decision now and