Jeni DiSalvo

350 Carver Hall

Iowa State University

 

disalvo@iastate.edu

 

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English 314  Technical Communication

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Memo Assignment

Purpose

The purpose of this exercise is to

  • Provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your understanding of the conventions of internal communication
  • Provide you with a chance to demonstrate your understanding of memo format
  • Provide your instructor with an idea of what you plan to do for your Instructions assignment

Tasks

 Prepare a memo telling me what you plan to use as a subject for your Instructions Assignment.

Your memo should be in correct Memo Format and contain the following information:

  • Who your audience is for your instructions
  • What instructions you are providing for that audience
  • How you plan to approach the assignment

Requirements

Your submission must have all of the above information for possibility of full credit.  Your Memo should be submitted in the correct format as an attachment to an email message.

Key Word: Memo 

Evaluation

This assignment is worth 50 points.

 

Content                                20 pts.

Application/Aud/Purp.           10 pts.

Mechanics                            10 pts.

Creativity/Prep                      5 pts

 

 

Rubric for Memo

 

Grading Rubric

 

 

 

Content

18-20 points

Effective description of your plans for your Instructions.  Attention to formatting conventions.

12-17 points

Missing some elements of format and/or scanty description of your plans for your Instructions.

0-11 points

Poor formatting elements and/or poor effort to describe your plans.

Application

9-10 points

Appropriate memo format and attention to audience and purpose of the document.

6-8 points

Missing some elements of appropriate audience and purpose analysis and/or poor memo format.

0-5 points

Missing formatting elements and rhetorical analysis.

 Mechanics

9-10

0-1 punctuation or grammar errors.

6-8 points

2-3 punctuation or grammar errors

0-5 points

More than 3 errors

Creativity/Preparation

5 points

Demonstrates good audience analysis and good editing.

3-4 points

Some elements of audience analysis missing or editing errors.

0-2 points

Missing audience analysis elements or profound editing errors.

 

 

 

 

 

To sell your ideas to your peers, to your management, to your customers, you must, and I stress MUST, be able to communicate.  One of the reasons Sir Isaac Newton was famous in physics was because he could communicate.

~Danny S.

     

 

 

Letter

Memo

Instructions

Project Management Plan

Culture Report

Proposal

Extra Credit Options