UMUC WRTG293 Week 5 Discussion Latest 2019 April Question # 00601630 Subject: Education Due on: 05/25/2019 Posted On: 05/25/2019 05:51 AM Tutorials: 1 Rating: 4.5/5

WRTG293 Introduction
to Professional Writing

Week 5
Discussion

DQ1 writing a memo to the faculty members
at Anderson College

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.

This is a discussion topic. You will want to reply to this discussion
topic and write your memo in the discussion text box.

DQ2 a problem in your workplace or
community

Please consider a problem in your workplace
or community that you would like to solve.
The problem you identify should be focused and solvable.

Some examples might be the following:

Your workplace should use texting to
communicate among employees for some situations, rather than email

The alley behind your townhouse community
has trash and debris building up. It
should be cleaned up.

An intersection in your community should
have a traffic light.

Your company now uses Google mail. You feel it should switch to Outlook.

The printer in your department is networked
to every computer in your department.
Employees waste valuable time walking to the printers to pick up their
printouts. Each office should have its
own printer.

The library in your community does not have
enough books. The library has a policy
of disregarding books that are not checked out within a year. This results in many potentially popular
books being eliminated.

A sidewalk in your community is in
significant disrepair. It should be
broken up and redone.

The staff members at your place of work
should have a person to confide in to complain or blow the whistle on other
employees who are not performing well or who misbehave. There is no Human Resources unit to which an
employee can share reports in confidence.
You need this type of HR unit or person.

The football field at your local high
school has items that need to be repaired.
Perhaps the scoreboard, the bleachers, or the field itself have problems
that need to be addressed.

Please take some time to consider a problem
in your workplace or community, one that can be solved by an individual (e.g.,
a manager, owner, department head, etc.) or a group of individuals (e.g., a
board of directors).

Respond to this discussion topic by stating
the following:

whether the problem you have identified is
a community problem or a workplace problem

what the problem is

how it can be solved or at least addressed

who can implement this solution

You can write one or two sentences for each
of the four items above.

DQ3 how you will demonstrate the problem

Please consider a problem in your workplace
or community that you identified in the previous discussion topic.

Then respond to this discussion topic by
stating the following:

what evidence is there to show that this
problem exists?

how will you demonstrate this evidence to
your decision-maker?

Some examples could be the following:

If you are writing about an intersection
that needs a traffic light, you might show pictures of the intersection, or
even show a brief video of the intersection showing its precariousness. You might also interview 3-4 people who live
near or drive through the intersection.

If you are writing about the need for
repairing the local football field, you might show pictures of the items in
disrepair. You might also interview 3-4
people who have experienced the problem.

If you are writing about a need to move
from Google mail to Outlook, you might show screen captures of what the Google
mail interface looks like alongside screen captures of what the Outlook
interface looks like.

Please note that, in this discussion topic,
you do not have to show the pictures, interviews, videos, or screen
captures. You simply need to state the
ways in which you could demonstrate the problem.