WA #1 -- Instruction Memo with Audience Profile
Instructions
Please see the below instructions for WA #1.
What to do : Write a memo to your instructor describing the audience of decision makers (primary) and others (secondary) for your Instruction Manual. Identify your primary audience and secondary audience, if any. For each audience, describe the following:
- What audience demographics, such as education, professional experience, personal characteristics, and cultural characteristics, are important about each audience in relation to your topic?
- What is the audience's level of knowledge about your topic?
- What is the audience's interest in your topic?
- What is the audience's attitude towards you and your topic?
- What does the audience need to know about your topic?
- What are the audience's expectations about the topic?
- How will the audience use the project documents?
- How can you effectively organize the information?
- How can you design the documents?
In other words, tell your instructor about your audience and how you can tailor your project documents to these audiences.
If your audience is a group and you use the audience profile sheet in analyzing your audience, develop a profile of a representative individual of the group to describe in your memo. Please do not submit the Audience Profile Sheet.
Note: Your memo should contain a thesis, or purpose, statement and a developed description of each of your audiences. Try using headings in your memo to identify the topics you discuss and to use as a transitional tool between ideas.
Assignment Format
The following are the instructions for the instruction manual memo with audience profile. This assignment is designed to help prepare you in writing the Instruction Manual, which is an assignment you will write later in the semester.
In writing this memo, please use the following format for the top of the memo:
To: your instructor's name
From:
Date:
Subject:
Then, in constructing the memo, answer the following questions by deleting the blue text in the brackets and replacing it with the requested information.
What is your topic?[Identify the topic of your instruction manual and briefly describe what you intend to write about in your technical description and instructions.]
Who is your intended audience and what is their profile?[Identify your intended audience and include a profile of your audience and relevant characteristics. Focus on relevant characteristics.]
Who is your secondary audience and what is their profile? [Identify your intended audience and include a profile of your audience and relevant characteristics. Focus on relevant characteristics.]
Length:
Your goal is to write a clear memo in preparation for your instruction manual. The minimum length is 2 full, single spaced pages. Please use the audience characteristic sheet to help better identify your target audience