Essentials of Business Communication 10th Edition by Dana Loewy,Mary Ellen Guffey

Exercise 11

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is a nonpartisan agency that works for Congress and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayer dollars. For this reason the agency is often called the congressional watchdog. These archived reports are available as portable document format (PDF) files. You'll be examining two reports from the GAO website.
Your Task. Visit the U.S. GAO website at http://www.gao.gov and click the link for Reports and Testimonies at the top of the page. Narrow the date to find reports issued within the last six months. Then browse by topic and select two reports on the topics of Employment or Health Care. (You may choose one report from each topic or both reports from one topic.) For each report, click the link above the title to open the PDF version. Write a one-page analysis of the report. Include the title, date, and number of pages in the report. Read the summary and write a brief paragraph describing the purpose of the report. Describe what sections are included in the report. Also describe what types of graphics were included to display information.