Locate a professional document that you think has both strengths and weaknesses.

Locate a professional document that you think has both strengths and weaknesses. This document can be a report, a press release, a memo or any other professional writing genre. You can select a document from work that someone else has written (as long as you have permission and do not use any identifying information), a document you have written, or a document you locate through research.

Assume that you are the author’s colleague or supervisor and that he or she has asked for your help in improving the document to make it clearer, concise, complete and correct and help ready it for publication.

Write a memo to this colleague evaluating the writing strengths and weaknesses of the document. Offer your colleague constructive, helpful advice on what specifically should be done during the revision and editing process to strengthen format and content to prepare it for publication.

Be sure to explain why these changes should be made and how they will improve the quality of the document. Ensure that the document’s audience understands the writer’s message, is effectively persuaded or clearly informed, and is motivated by the presentation of ideas.

Use the 6th edition APA citation format to credit any use of source information used to support your statements about these writing issues.

Your memo should be between 600 – 750 words in length.

Please keep in mind as you are composing this assignment that in Module 7 you will be submitting a portfolio of your best work that you might submit to potential employers. This assignment could be included in that portfolio as evidence of your professional writing skills.