PROJECT
Interview for writing
- How much of your day is spent writing?
- Writing to staff? Clients? Prospective clients? Complaints? Procedural?
- For each type of writing, ask if you can see it? Take one? Ask audience questions (who gets it? Why?)
- How long is it? How much time to complete it? Do you show it to anyone before submitting it?
- Ever have a good or bad or embarrassing experience writing one of these reports?
- Is it hard? Easy?
- Who taught you how to write one?
- Ever write only part of one (written collaboratively?)
- History: How has it changed over the years?
- Flawed ones: what happened?
- Digital? Printed out?
- Draw a flowchart to follow the report: Where is it before you write it, where does it go from your desk to _____________. What happens next? Is it kept as a copy somewhere? How long? Who uses it in the future?
- How is it organized? (Go part by part). Does it include figures? Is anything in color?
- What is the function: teaching, selling, advocating, judging, archiving information, researching (or reporting research), or other? Why?
Repeat questions for each appropriate writing. Remember that a presentation is also writing
Three ads
- Name of documents
- What it contains (may require Internet follow up)
- Is it used by interviewee?
- Preparation for being able to write it
Lexis-Nexis report on patent (You should find the patent from Global Marketing Major)
- Explain nature of the patent-what is it?
- What does each subsection contain information on (named headings and explanations)
- Does it use figures? When? Why?
- Your involvement with it on the job.
Analysis of one text from interview:
- Why you chose it
- Purpose, audience, context
- Organization (abstract? Introduction? Figures?)
- Language and style (Clarify what you mean by "formal" or "friendly" or "technical" by quoting examples from text) Jargon? Technical Language?
- History of text?
- Destination of text, along with flowchart.
Attachment:- Assignment.rar