Reference no: EM131249138

PROJECT

Interview for writing

• How much of your day is spent writing?
• Writing to staff? Clients? Prospective clients? Complaints? Procedural?
• For each type of writing, ask if you can see it? Take one? Ask audience questions (who gets it? Why?)
• How long is it? How much time to complete it? Do you show it to anyone before submitting it?
• Ever have a good or bad or embarrassing experience writing one of these reports?
• Is it hard? Easy?
• Who taught you how to write one?
• Ever write only part of one (written collaboratively?)
• History: How has it changed over the years?
• Flawed ones: what happened?
• Digital? Printed out?
• Draw a flowchart to follow the report: Where is it before you write it, where does it go from your desk to _____________. What happens next? Is it kept as a copy somewhere? How long? Who uses it in the future?
• How is it organized? (Go part by part). Does it include figures? Is anything in color?
• What is the function: teaching, selling, advocating, judging, archiving information, researching (or reporting research), or other? Why?

Repeat questions for each appropriate writing. Remember that a presentation is also writing

Three ads

• Name of documents
• What it contains (may require Internet follow up)
• Is it used by interviewee?
• Preparation for being able to write it

Lexis-Nexis report on patent (You should find the patent from Global Marketing Major)

• Explain nature of the patent-what is it?
• What does each subsection contain information on (named headings and explanations)
• Does it use figures? When? Why?
• Your involvement with it on the job.

Analysis of one text from interview:

• Why you chose it
• Purpose, audience, context
• Organization (abstract? Introduction? Figures?)
• Language and style (Clarify what you mean by "formal" or "friendly" or "technical" by quoting examples from text) Jargon? Technical Language?
• History of text?
• Destination of text, along with flowchart.

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