Memo continued.

If you were going to assign this again next semester I would suggest that the group work is more structured. There were a lot of days when we were in groups that we would finish talking about the topic and there would still be tons of time left over. I also think that it would be a good idea to space out the readings a little bit more. Especially, when some of the articles are very long as it is hard to get the important information out of 50 pages that need to be read in a two day time. I feel that the rubric for the assignment was helpful but that it could have also been more structured so that it provided a clear statement of what was going to be looked for in the assignment. I think that the point values for each of the requirements should be listed so the student is aware of how much each aspect of the assignment is going to be worth. Overall, I think this assignment was very helpful as it will definately be something that we will need toknow how to do once we are teachers. I know that I personally had experience writing memos before but they were just short things that were for inter-office discussion. It was very interesting to learn the research that needs to be involved in writing an academic memo because that was something that had yet to be addressed by any of our other classes.