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
I knew I wanted to write my memo and email about climate change occurring in the mountains (my
book topic). It took me a moment to decide what I can do to explain it in further detail for a specific
issue. I decided to promote the solution that France, Switzerland, and Italy did for Mont Blanc. I
didn’t want to include any visual aids like images to make it look less professional in my perception.
Some issues can be explained better with visual aids. I didn’t think it was necessary. For my memo, I
added heading, introduction (without a header), summary, discussion topics, solution, conclusion,
recommendations, and references. I also had set a style guide with few sources to help me start my
first draft.

First Draft (for peer editing)

During my first draft, I incorporated everything I had planned from adding the heading to references.
What changed was the style guide and the sources, I ended up only using one of my sources as it was
enough to talk about my topic in detail. I wanted to explain my side of the perspective and what the
research was, not just the research portion of the issue.

Second Draft (for your packet)

After the recommendations from my peers, I was able to fix some of my grammatical mistakes and
add more color to it to make it professional but organized. I got great responses from my peer
editing group.

Final Draft (for your portfolio)

 Document Development Exposition: Workplace Correspondence

For my portfolio, based on the professor’s recommendations, there wasn’t much I had to change for
my email and my memo. It was mainly formatting and updating a few things. For my email, I added
the headers, removed my indents for the paragraphs in the email, and fixed my signature. I learned
how to improve my signature better. For the memo, it was mainly adding a bit more on the summary
as it was only a couple of sentences, which I realized was necessary for the audience to understand
the topic better.