The Checklist

The checklist relates to your career-related documents.

As you were conducting your interview for your Career Writing Interview Memorandum, you learned that people who work in your field do certain kinds of writing. You got examples. Hopefully, you also learned some specifics about how to do that kind of writing. For example, police officers filing incident reports must be very detailed, must present only the facts, must keep their opinion out of it, and must use certain phrases and avoid others. Those working in the medical field must keep detailed records of everything that is done for a patient. Lawyers writing briefs must refer to specific cases and be familiar with case law.

The checklist is a list of criteria or steps that someone creating your career-related writing has to be aware of to insure that it is done properly and the intended audience or reader has what she or he need to take action. The rules could be as simple as "Never use first person," or as complicated as "In writing an introduction for the document, always include the following: ..."

Create a checklist for writing in the career you interviewed about. Be detailed--list multiple criteria and state them specifically.

 

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