Document Development Exposition: Workplace Correspondence

Explain in detail your document’s development from planning to finish, describing your
challenges, how you overcame them, and what you learned.

Planning
• Determine audience
• Evaluate what the issues is and how it can be solved
• Determine ways to be convincing to audience without sounding to formal
• Explain how will accomplish goal and necessary action that will be needed to take

First Draft (for peer editing)

• Write from, where its going to, subject
• Write background, main points, current issue, how it will be improved
• Determine color scheme
• Research existing alarm system and how we can implement that for lightning storms on
Clemson campus
• Explain why there is an existing problem

Second Draft (for your packet)

• Organize into sections
• Change sentences
• Incorporate transition words
• Include more details on advantages of adding in this system and the impact it will have on
the community
• Create color scheme
• Cite everything
• Finalize sentences, formatting, and make sure everything flows

Final Draft (for your portfolio)

Separated email into 3 paragraphs

Added summary paragraph to memo
Provided more clarity to recommendations section
Edited formatting