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
The email and memo were honestly one of the hardest topics for me to grasp with me having a hard
time differentiating the two. Though when it came down to it, I made the email the SparkNotes
version of the memo. With me walking the readers through the exact process that I follow to get the
usability test successfully done.

First Draft (for peer editing)

The first draft I submitted I feel as if you could tell that I was confused with the actual differences.
With the email being a close copy of the memo with almost the same amount of word count. When
initially turning this in a did feel lost.

Second Draft (for your packet)

After the peer review this process did help me out quite a bit. With me reviewing other students’
documents I got an idea of the differences between both and how to better format them. With
people telling me that I need to shorten my email and be more concise with it.

Final Draft (for your portfolio)

When going into the final draft the notes left were very helpful as it helped my email to be more
concise and to make a direct reference to the memo itself. Which makes sense as it shows the
connections between both documents. The one thing I never asked in class and am still a little
confused on is how to change my results section. A note on my memo said it was too like the email. I
did not know whether I should make the email shorter though as I had no clue on how to change up
the memo and make it longer as the information it was presenting I thought was spot on.