Memo

Professor’s comments:
Like the idea and organization of this memo. It makes it clear and easy to read all of the elements and features. The photos are nice, but they need captions and labels. Also, where did you get the photos? They need source info.

The Memo assignment was a great way for me to experience writing a layout of an idea that I had. I had to use the textbook to see what components I needed for a memo since I had never written one before. I liked writing this Memo because it was a way for me to express creativity in an idea I had had for a long time and bring it into words and potentially something I could even share with a real architect in the future. This assignment was a little different than anything that I had done before in that it negotiated my own writing goals and audience expectations regarding conventions of genre, medium, and rhetorical situation.
While writing this memo, I found myself thinking how I should perceive my tone as: persuasive or informative? In a way, I used both aspects when I spoke about the facts and layout while also explaining why it would be a great idea to have such a spa and café. The other thing that was new to me was how to organize the information in a cohesive way that makes it easy for the reader to understand. As a future engineer, I know that other engineers and people in similar fields will want information straight up and will not want to read so much at a time. It was also new for me to bullet my points and add so many subcategories but I really think it spaced things out well.
The only aspect I had trouble with in my first draft was with adding more factual information about the design and organizing the subcategories better. I also did not include sources for my images. However, overall, I think I did a good job in articulating my idea in a cohesive manner which is a huge objective of this class.