Memorandum

I thought writing this memorandum was rather ironic. Here I was telling a pseudo principal how it is important for children to understand the genre in which they will be writing in order to produce quality work, all the while not understanding the genre I was, myself, writing in! I felt, however, that I gained a great appreciation for writing skills instruction in researching various methods currently implemented and theories about future methods. I don't know if I did the assignment correctly, style wise, but I do feel that I was able to really think about the writing process in a different way. I liked how the reading was divided up and that we could access our groups annotated bibliographies as references for our own readings. It made this assignment easier to tackle and understand. I think in the future it would be advantageous for P Kittle to spend a little class time going over the dynamics, styles, rules, etc of a memorandum. I felt not knowing the genre really hindered my memorandum in the beginning. I felt that this assignment was really helpful and meaningful. This was one of those assignments that I was really able to see the point of.