Writing a Memo to Faculty member

In this discussion topic, we will review another skill of professional writing — composing a memo to a specific audience.

This discussion topic will also involve the following readings. They are provided in week 4 of Content.

• Scenario: Anderson College (Part I)
• Jay Williams’ Ineffective Instructions
• D.A. Jameson, “Management consulting and teaching: Lessons learned teaching professionals to control tone in writing

In week 4, you identified some of the problems with a poorly written set of instructions. You also rewrote the set of instructions.

In this discussion topic, please complete the following:

Write a memo to the faculty members at Anderson College informing them of the revised instructions and where they can access them.

Please follow the advice provided in the resources in week 4 of Content about writing a memo. In addition, you can be creative in directing the faculty members to where they can access the new set of instructions. You can make up the name of a folder on Google drive or some other folder on the cloud.

This is an internal memo. However, some faculty members might not remember the details about the instructions that the previous student worker wrote. For this reason, you will want to introduce the memo with some level of detail of the history of the instructions, let them know that the instructions have been revised, and let them know where they can access them. Of course, you will want to provide them with your contact information in case they have additional questions.