MbShea@PWP@English@UMCP

Memos due on Wednesday, in hard copy. DOUBLE SPACED.  We can print in the classroom, but will need to use the stations around the perimeter of room, to connect with printer.

Office Hours in the Sky! Tuesday, 9-10PM in a google doc I will link to on that evening.

I want to review a few ideas: recall your sentence strategies in the three handouts:

BUFFY active voice, present tense, avoid long verby strings

PITCH place verb within first five or so words, keep subject and verb together, avoid the personal construction of I believe, I feel, I think.  WHY? Your authorship conveys this stance.

KATRINA (Bruce Ross-Larson) direct, embellished, complicated, conditioned, mixed (combinations of above) 

I am looking at your sentence superpowers in this assignment.  

Open and close a memo (subtle strategies). You can use these sentences types in memos and short-report professional documents.  First/second person makes sense here.  (Let the memo body be in third person to let your analysis "speak."

OPENINGS preview the content and manage expectations on detail, volume, and ethos of your analysis of sources.

Here is the short definition you requested on rain gardens.

Here is the rain garden information you asked for. As you requested, this is brief and will help you in your meeting.

I gathered this overview on rain gardens, summarizing several credible sources.

CLOSINGS

I hope this information helps you.  Should you need additional detail, I am happy to help. For example, I could provide more information on [      ].

Sources and suggested reading (bibligraphic entries on your two or three sources) 

Choices

• providing some examples by links (two is good) within body OR at end (which paragraph(s) are candidated?
• what additional material you want to signal your interest in (last sentence bracket area in the closing sample above)
• might you use a news source about cost/benefits?

 CHECKLIST