For the second project, my group chose feasibility reports for our genre. This genre can interact with other texts such as technical reports, data sets, published studies, and journal articles. A feasibility report uses these types of texts in order to have factual support for a proposed solution. These texts are not confined to one space; they can be produced and used internally in an organization or field, and they can also be available publicly. For example, a technical report could be produced for a product in a smartphone company. This could be passed around to engineers who work in the company to help their development of the product. Later some of the technical specifications in this report could be released to the general public to advertise the product. Another example could be a psychology study that a university runs. At first this would be internal to the university. However, this could later become more widespread after it is published in a journal for a larger community to read.
The genre of a feasibility report usually is not meant for the wide consumption that the assemblages it interacts with can have. The people who compose this genre can be in a variety of disciplines. Despite this, they share the same goal – to convince another group or organization of the feasibility of a proposed solution to some problem. The group or organization that commissioned the feasibility report would be the one who reads it. They would then use the report to decide their next actions going forward. For example, a feasibility report could be commissioned by a computer company that wants to update their operating system. After reading the study that was researched and produced by another group of engineers, the company would consider what was in the report. If the study found the updates possible and beneficial, the company would go ahead with those updates. However if the study found problems with the updates, the company could take this information and try to find another solution.
