One-Shot Submission: Survey of Website Writing In Your Field Informal Report

Choose the webpages that you will describe, following these guidelines: [1] Pick specific webpages that a professional in your field typically uses while working. [2] Avoid overly general pages, like Google or Office 365. [3] Choose webpages that focus on four different types (or genres) of writing. For help identifying types of writing, see https://canvas.vt.edu/courses/205859/pages/resources-for-identifying-types-of-writing

Set up your informal report as a memo from you (your name) to me (my name). Find the template at https://canvas.vt.edu/courses/205859/pages/annotated-website-survey-memo-template

See the Correspondence resources in the Week 02 Readings: https://canvas.vt.edu/courses/205859/pages/week-02-readings

See the Correspondence resources in the Week 02 Readings at https://canvas.vt.edu/courses/205859/pages/week-02-readings and on the Strong Subject Lines page at https://canvas.vt.edu/courses/205859/pages/strong-subject-lines for help.

Explain the purpose of your project and summarize what you discovered in a single sentence or two sentences. You can even start like this: The purpose of this report is to X. Researching for the report, I discovered Y.

Identify and discuss the approach you took to finding the information. Did you interview someone? If so, who? Where do they work? What's their job title? How do you know them? If you researched online, where did you find the information? Identify your sources in writing. You don't have to list all of the bibliographical material. Just indicate the source titles.

See the Advance Organizer page at https://canvas.vt.edu/courses/205859/pages/advance-organizers.

Include four different subsections, one for each different type of writing. See the details in the assignment above in #5, under the Types of Writing bullet: https://canvas.vt.edu/courses/205859/assignments/2273825

See the template at https://canvas.vt.edu/courses/205859/pages/annotated-website-survey-memo-template and the Using Headings to Organize page at https://canvas.vt.edu/courses/205859/pages/organization-using-headings-to-organize

In separate sections, each with a heading that identifies the type of writing, summarize the various types of writing you learned about. For each, give the website’s name and provide a link to the site, and then identify these 5 items in paragraph form: [1] genre (what type of writing is it?), [2] purpose of the type of writing (what is it meant to do?), [3] typical audience for it, [4] the usual mode of delivery (paper, blog, database, etc.), and [5] the usual length of the type of writing. Ensure your details are clear and specific.

End the body section by discussing briefly what you learned about the types of writing you might be producing in the workplace. Do not summarize the webpages themselves.

End cordially and provide your contact information, using sentences in a paragraph.