ENGL 202 Project 1 Handout
- 1. English 202 Introduction to Professional Writing Page 1of 1 Karen L. Thompson Department of English University of Idaho Project 1: Analyze Your Writing to Determine Readability (15%) This project is designed to help you transition from academic essay writing to workplace writing. Any writing you do in a workplace setting will be writing your reader(s) need in order to do their work. Therefore, your communication needs to be highly readable. Readability is determined by 1. clarity of prose style, 2. effective arrangement of information, and 3. whether your writing is free of noticeable error. For this project, you will analyze some of your prior writing to determine readability and write up the findings in a memo (a common workplace genre). Learning Objectives. After completing this project, you should be able to: continue to apply prose style concepts to achieve maximum readability, follow standard formatting conventions to compose memo reports, apply principles of document design to enhance readability of documents, learn grammatical errors workplace readers notice and how to fix these, arrange information to support your purpose for writing and audience needs. Project Deliverable: A deliverable is my way of saying assignment. I use this word because English 202 is about workplace writing, and deliverable is a common way of referring to communication products in the workplace. Memo Report about 3 pages, but it may likely be longer depending on the findings from your analysis, submitted as a Word or PDF file. 1 Audience: Professor Nicotra Purpose: To present findings from analyzing your prose style. 1 Word count guidelines are based on left-justification, 12 pt. font size, single-spaced text with line of white space between paragraphs, and include the use of headings and subheadings as needed. Use the word count as a guideline only. Never write to meet a word count. Always write to meet your purpose for writing and audience needs. WARNING: Page length and word count guidelines are not a valid way to determine how long a project will take you to complete in this course. Refer to the project schedule of steps to understand the time you will need to allocate for this project.