{"id":923,"date":"2021-11-09T23:16:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T23:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/tech-comm\/?page_id=923"},"modified":"2023-09-29T19:51:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T19:51:15","slug":"memo-exercises","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/tech-comm\/genres\/memo-exercises\/","title":{"rendered":"Memo Exercises"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-page pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/tech-comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/923?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/tech-comm\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/tech-comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/923?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/tech-comm\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div><p>Find at least three examples memos and analyze\/compare them based on the following criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify the purpose and audience for each memo. How do the<br \/>\npurpose and audience inform decisions about:<\/li>\n<li>Content (What information is included?)<\/li>\n<li>Organization and design (How does the organization accomplish the memo\u2019s purpose?)<\/li>\n<li>Style (How is the language tailored to the target audience? How is the text crafted to accomplish the memo\u2019s purpose for the target audience?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You may remember this scenario from the \u201cEmail\u201d exercise:<\/p>\n<p>You are the sales manager at Mystery Bags, Inc., overseeing a sales department of 50 employees. Sales have decreased 25% total over two consecutive quarters at your business. Gross sales are down from $50,000 to $37,000 per quarter. The chief financial officer, Mitchell McBaggins, has instructed you to inform your sales team that their base pay and commissions will be reduced by 15% effective at the start of the next quarter.<\/p>\n<p>In the \u201cEmail\u201d chapter, you were asked to write an email conveying this information. For this exercise, write a memo based on this scenario.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/tech-comm\/files\/2020\/03\/Sp20_Memo-Exercises_RAWWR_COP.pdf\">Memo Exercises pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/tech-comm\/files\/2021\/11\/Sp20_Memo-Exercises_RAWWR_COP.docx\">Memo Exercises docx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"entry-excerpt\">Find at least three examples memos and analyze\/compare them based on the following criteria: Identify the purpose and audience for each memo. How do the purpose and audience inform decisions about: Content (What information is&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/tech-comm\/genres\/memo-exercises\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Memo Exercises<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":342,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-923","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/tech-comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/tech-comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/tech-comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/tech-comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/tech-comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/tech-comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1466,"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/tech-comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/923\/revisions\/1466"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/tech-comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/tech-comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}