Team Documents: Memos, Correspondences, Visual Pitch, & Retrospectives
Professional Writing course students were tasked with creating a visual pitch, developing a variety of correspondence letters to our community client, maintaining meeting notes, and writing reflective memos as part of completing the course objectives.
Visual Pitch
Pitching St. Luke's Single Moms Support Group as a Community Client Project for W231
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The visual pitch seen above was created for an English Professional Writing course at IUPUI. The purpose of this pitch was to persuade classmates to work with the Single Moms Support Group Leader at St. Luke's Methodist Church as a community client.
Initial Client Correspondences
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Persuasive Correspondence
The goal of the Persuasive Correspondence assignment was to convince our chosen community client to participate in a IUPUI student led research project. This correspondence enabled us to practice the business writing skills we had learned and worked with up to this point by applying them in a real world setting.
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Goodwill Correspondence
The goal of the Goodwill Correspondence assignment was to convey to our chosen community client that that project proposal was selected to participate in a IUPUI student led research project.
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Bad News Correspondence
The goal of the Bad News Correspondence assignment was to convey to our chosen community client that that project proposal was not selected to participate in a IUPUI student led research project.
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Additional Project Correspondences
Client Meeting Follow-up Correspondence
Teams sent a follow up email to the client after their initial meeting.
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Client Recommendation Report Correspondence
After 10-weeks of research, teams sent their client a website link that housed the entire recommendation report.
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Local Survey Facebook Groups Correspondence
As part of the research conducted for this project, teams were involved in creating and distributing a local survey to validate their findings. Context was provided with the survey when they were distributed through the teams chosen medium. Students were recommended to not share information about the client.*
*The client for the St. Luke's Team requested to be mentioned as part of the survey distribution.
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Team Documents
Team Memo
As a team, we were tasked with developing a team memo prior to starting our research. Creating the team memo required our team to meet, brainstorm, discuss, and agree upon expectations that we would hold each other accountable to throughout the project and remainder of the semester.
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Team Meeting Notes
Meeting notes were taken by a team member every session to keep track of tasks completed or topics discussed during meetings. Additionally, the meeting notes document served as a home for links, examples, drafts of assignments, and resources easily accessible by every member of the team.
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