Reflective Memo
Grading for this segment:
This segment will be graded according to the specific instructions provided here and based on the general UWP grading criteria sheet components: 1) ideas, 2) organization (appropriate to this memo genre), 3) coherence, 4) support (evidence), as well as, but to a lesser extent, 5) style and 6) mechanics.
Requirements
• Use a standard memo format; with parallel headings (that you make up) and block paragraphs
• 750 word minimum—you can write more, without penalty.
• Display a thoughtful response to the prompt, one that illustrates your thinking and meaningful content.
• Use specific examples/evidence and reasoning to support your claims
• Apply the logic of intentional paragraph revision—final paragraphs and sentences should have a reason for being there.
• Show mostly coherent organization (text flows well from point to point within and across paragraphs, using reasonable transitions; mostly clear sentence structures (following concepts like key word repetition, coherence and subordination to emphasize strong subjects)
The Prompt:
As you leave our course, you are equipped with skills and strategies for communicating professionally that you can share with others. What has made the biggest difference for you as you anticipate writing professionally—whether that means in your continued studies at UCD, or in a new career or other setting, as you prepare to leave UCD?
Write a structured memo to UCD students in Economics major, providing suggestions from what you have learned on how to succeed in academic or professional communication.
To pre-write or gather ideas on what to say, reflect on what you have done—or not done, what you have learned—or not learned about succeeding in academic or professional communication, while at UCD. You may focus exclusively on key lessons from our business writing course (or syllabus!), but are not required to. Use meaningful, sincere examples from your experience as support. Your suggestions to UCD students in your major could be advice for academic communication, but you can also choose to write about what they should keep in mind when writing and communicating in your shared profession or field—assuming that your major has a clear outcome that you can address.
There are no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answers to this prompt. I’m asking you to reflect on your experience as a writer/communicator and your time, in Economics major, at UCD. And then, I’m asking you to “pay it forward,” by illustrating some of what you have learned as a student in a strategic communications course, and (imagine) sharing your gains, or “take a-ways” with other UCD students in your major. Be sincere and show me, as a secondary audience, what you have gained.
University Writing Program
104A Writing in the Professions: Business Writing
What I have learned in the class:
1. An active, recursive writing process (prewriting+ drafting + revising + editing + submitting documents).
2. Revised Dream Job Memo
• You have just been hired in an entry-level position at your dream job. You’ve only been there a few days, but your manager has asked you to write a memo introducing yourself to your co-workers at the company.
• You can assume that this memo will be read by the employees in your unit, as well as by your supervisor or boss, and possibly, by the company’s owner.
• The memo should showcase or illustrate your relevant background, interests and strengths as they pertain to the work environment you have just joined.
3. Persuasive Letters
4. Professional Application – resume and cover letter
5. Proposal – (UNSOLICITED PROPOSAL)
6. Play PARC in very assignment: specific purpose, to a specific audience, with a specific writer’s role and writing context in mind (PARC)
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