PART TWO ANALYSIS OF AUDIENCE, OUTLINE, AND MEMO Purpose: The boss is concerned about attracting the best talent to fill the position you hold. She/he asked you to make a comparison and give him/her your conclusion, backed up by research. This exercise helps you focus on your audience and on the main message you are communicating. The planning process is essential to the effectiveness of the memo. After you fill out the form, outline the memo. Then, write the memo. When you save this form, rename it by inserting your last name at the beginning of the file name. NAME: ASSIGNMENT: CAREER REPORT Please type your responses in this column. It will lengthen as needed. Proofread your responses carefully. COMPANY — Name the company that ’employs’ you in the entry-level position. ENTRY-LEVEL POSITION — Describe the position you are pretending to hold. Include the formal title. AUDIENCE — This is the person to whom you report– the boss who asked for the memo. Remember, entry-level employees rarely report to the CEO or top-tier executives. List the person’s name, title, and company. Identify the audience’s needs, priorities and values related to the issue you are addressing. How credible are you to the audience? How will you build your credibility? MESSAGE FRAMING State your message in one complete sentence (use no more than 20 words). This message will succinctly answer the boss’s question. BENEFITS List at least three benefits that your BOSS WILL RECEIVE as a result of reading your memo. The answer must illustrate what the BOSS (your audience) will gain from your message. p. 1, Revised April 2021 Before you start writing, outline your message. THE OUTLINE IS REQUIRED. Purpose: The boss is concerned about attracting the best talent to fill the position you hold. She/he asked you to make a comparison and give him your conclusion, backed up by research. Use this outline format. Use just enough words to express the idea. Think of this outline as the skeleton of your message. I. Opening Statement— Get the audience’s attention, tell the audience the reason you are writing, state the framing message. II. Body A. Supporting Point 1. 2. B. Supporting Point 1. 2. C. Supporting Point 1. 2. (the topic sentence) detail detail (the topic sentence) details details (the topic sentence) details details III. Concluding Statement— Reinforce your message (key idea) and overarching benefit. Restate your conclusion. The outline is graded. Remember to delete the instructions on the outline. Your instructor only wants to see your words. Now that you have finished the analysis and the memo outline, begin a NEW page and write the 1.5 page memo using appropriate business memo format. • • • • • • • All margins are one-inch. The font is Times New Roman or Garamond, point size 10 The To/From/Date/Subject lines must be formatted in two columns, exactly as shown. The text is block left (no paragraph indentation), ragged right (no justified margins). All lines are single spaced. An extra line space is used between paragraphs. For the second page, in the header section, flush right, repeat the subject heading, followed by p. 2 Proofread your work! Grammar, spelling, and proofing errors will count against your grade. Three tools will help you catch errors: ? Grammarly (provided FREE to you) https://technology.gsu.edu/technology-services/itservices/training-and-learning-resources/grammarly/ ? The Word Editor (provided FREE to you) https://technology.gsu.edu/technologyservices/it-services/training-and-learning-resources/grammarly/ ? You! Read it out loud. Does it make sense? p. 2, Revised April 2021 To: From: Date: Subject: Boss’s name Your name Date In 3 — 6 interesting words, explain purpose of this memo First paragraph — Get the audience’s attention, tell the audience the reason you are writing, state the framing message. (This is NOT a letter. Memos do not begin with ‘Dear Name….’) The body • Organize into short paragraphs, 5 — 7 lines long. You have three key points, so you will have at least three paragraphs. Some key points will need more than one paragraph. • Begin each paragraph with the topic sentence of the paragraph. Only include details that support the topic sentence. • Include narrative source citation to support your case. Last paragraph — Reinforce your message (key idea) and overarching benefit. The memo is graded. Remember to delete the instructions on the memo. Your instructor only wants to see your words. p. 3, Revised April 2021 Purchase answer to see full attachment Explanation & Answer: Part 2 Career Report Outline Memo Tags: career report talent acquisition High Employee Turnover employee retention strategy Workflow problems User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following our company’shonor code & terms of service.

MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics

Guidelines for referring to the works of others in your text using MLA style are covered throughout the MLA Handbook and in chapter 7 of the MLA Style Manual. Both books provide extensive examples, so it’s a good idea to consult them if you want to become even more familiar with MLA guidelines or if you have a particular reference question.

BASIC IN-TEXT CITATION RULES

In MLA Style, referring to the works of others in your text is done using parenthetical citations. This method involves providing relevant source information in parentheses whenever a sentence uses a quotation or paraphrase. Usually, the simplest way to do this is to put all of the source information in parentheses at the end of the sentence (i.e., just before the period). However, as the examples below will illustrate, there are situations where it makes sense to put the parenthetical elsewhere in the sentence, or even to leave information out.

General Guidelines

• The source information required in a parenthetical citation depends (1) upon the source medium (e.g. print, web, DVD) and (2) upon the source’s entry on the Works Cited page.
• Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry on the Works Cited page.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS: AUTHOR-PAGE STYLE

MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author’s last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author’s name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example:

Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (263).

Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263).

Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth, they would find the following information:

Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. Oxford UP, 1967.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS FOR PRINT SOURCES WITH KNOWN AUTHOR

For print sources like books, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and newspapers, provide a signal word or phrase (usually the author’s last name) and a page number. If you provide the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need to include it in the parenthetical citation.

Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as “symbol-using animals” (3).

Human beings have been described as “symbol-using animals” (Burke 3).

These examples must correspond to an entry that begins with Burke, which will be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of an entry on the Works Cited page:

Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. University of California Press, 1966.