Your Task

Part of the Homework portion of your course grade

Analyze the Correspondence & Informational Report Assignment and the full scenario to identify its audience and purpose.

Answer the questions below to record what you’ve found and what you’ve decided about your project.

Review Markel & Selber Ch 5 for help with this project.

Assignment Learning Objectives

After working on this assignment, you should be able to:

• Identify the audience and purpose of a technical document you will write.
• Determine the information that your audience will need to accomplish the purpose of your document.
• Decide on the appropriate tone and style for your audience, including how to communicate with a focus on you-attitude.

Your Audience

Write your message for Luci Lee, Director of Research and Development at your client, W. A. Caldwell & Associates. Lee and her team will use your report to decide what tools will work best for their organization. See the full scenario for all the details on the writing situation.

Success Tips

• Follow the examples and discussion in Chapter 5 of the textbook on how to analyze your audience.
• Provide support from the scenario and your understanding of workplace communication to explain the decisions that you make.
• Think about primary, secondary, and tertiary audiences. Your document will probably be read by several people with various needs.

No Use of AI

Do not use AI on this activity.

The goal is to be able to analyze the audience for the document you are writing.

How You’ll Be Graded

Canvas will automatically give you credit for your submission.

I spot-check the work to ensure the grade is accurate.

If you shouldn’t have earned credit, I change the grade. This situation usually happens when answers are missing or incomplete. If time allows, I may ask you to try again.