Assignment 2: Planned and Drafted Documents
Your assignment will consist of two planned and drafted documents. You will submit four files in total to your tutor for review: both planning documents and both final correspondence documents.
Choose two documents from your job that you are planning to write. At least one of the two documents should be an e-mail message; the other can be an e-mail message or a short document. You will need to follow the conventions for each of these types of documents in your assignment.
One of the documents that you plan and draft will be a responsive e-mail message; the other will be an initiative document. (Decide for yourself whether this will be a short document or an e-mail.) For each document, you should do the following:
- Complete a Reader Analysis Form. This will help you to reflect on your reader’s needs and to prepare the Dialogue with the Reader Worksheet. Do not submit the reader analysis to your tutor; it is just a tool for you to use in planning.
- Complete a Dialogue with the Reader Worksheet. Each worksheet should include at least two additional reader questions (shown on the worksheet as “Reader’s Next Questions”) after the main message.
- Write the document based on your plan in the dialogue worksheet.
- Note: Your e-mail or short document should be at least three paragraphs long.
When you have completed your planning and drafting for both documents, upload the following four Word files to the Assignment 2 section in Moodle:
- Responsive Worksheet
- Responsive E-mail
- Initiative Worksheet
- Initiative Document (either an e-mail or a short document)
Your tutor will provide feedback on the overall effectiveness of your planning worksheets and your documents. You may be asked to revise and resubmit any part of the assignment based on this feedback.