Reference no: EM132452990
Project: Instruction Manual Topic Memo with Audience Analysis on any TOPIC
Assignment Information:
Objective: To write a well-developed memo describing the topic and the target audience(s) for the instruction manual you will write for this course.
Grading Criteria
- Meets specified length requirements
- Uses memo format
- Relates to the project topic identified for the project
- Identifies the primary and secondary audiences of the project documents
- Identifies the purpose of the memo
- Contains a thesis, or purpose, statement
- Is well organized with an introduction, body, and conclusion
- Is well developed with ideas supported by a thorough analysis of the audience
- Is coherent
- Contains varied, effective sentence structure
- Contains no sentence structure problems
- Uses clear, concise, formal, and appropriate language for readers
- Contains no grammatical or spelling errors
What to do : Write a memo ( using correct memo format) to your instructor describing the audience of users for your instruction manual. Identify your primary audience and describe the following:
- What audience demographics, such as education, professional experience, personal characteristics, and cultural characteristics, are important about each audience in relation to your topic?
- What is the audience's level of knowledge about your topic?
- What is the audience's interest in your topic?
- What is the audience's attitude towards you and your topic?
- What does the audience need to know about your topic?
- What are the audience's expectations about the topic?
- How will the audience use instruction manual?
- How can you effectively organize the information?
- How can you design the documents?
In other words, tell your instructor about your audience and how you can tailor your instruction manual documents to these audiences.
If your audience is a group and you use the audience profile sheet in analyzing your audience, develop a profile of a representative individual of the group to describe in your memo.
Note: Your memo should contain a thesis, or purpose, statement and a developed description of each of your audiences. Try using headings in your memo to identify the topics you discuss and to use as a transitional tool between ideas.
To develop your memo:
- Develop a profile of your audience using the following resources:
- Questions for Developing an Audience Analysis document available from link in the Course Content
Set up your memo using the following standard memo heading: To: Dr. Doherty From: [your name] Date: [due date] Subject: [specific description of topic] State purpose of your memo in your introductory paragraph. In the body of your memo, identify the audience for your instruction manual and then describe your audience.
For those of you who are not quite sure about how to write the audience analysis memo, follow the step-by-step process of prewriting, writing, and revising described in the attachment "Process for Writing Audience Analysis Memo.
Your memo will be graded based on all required criteria for the assignment.
Requirements : The minimum length is 600 words.
Format: Submit your audience analysis memo in a MS Word format. Do not submit in an HTML or a PDF format.