Project Proposal Memo

Use the following resources to help you prepare a memo to your instructor about the audience your ePortfolio targets.

Please submit your memo and competency map to turnitin.com by the due date listed on the syllabus for your section. To help you prepare for this assignment, you will complete a peer review assignment, which requires you to analyze and comment on other project proposal memos. Your analysis and critique of your own writing should be based on writing goals listed below.

Assignment Writing Goals

The student will know how to ....

• 1. Apply memo conventions, including heading and signature information, and a clear subject line states the reader's purpose for receiving the information.

  2. Create a distinguishable structure: an Introduction, Body, and Conclusion.

  3. Apply the Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) approach to memo writing, including an informative summary and reader's purpose for reading.

  4. Develop the message for the reader, supporting claims with sufficient and compelling evidence.

  5. Use a style that fits the audience and the context, using understandable language and sentence that flow and are without errors.

Resources

• Instructions

• Rubric

• Competency Map Template

• Memo Template