Reflection to MEMORANDUM

Esmeralda Santa 

English 21003, Section M 

Professor  Matyakubova

6 September 2017 

Reflection  

                                                         Memorandum Reflection 

       

      When writing the memorandum, I took into consideration many types of course learning 

objectives such as type of genre, stance, the audience and purpose. Before I started writing, I had to 

come up with a topic for the memo, and then identify what my purpose would be. When writing a 

memo, the purpose is very important because it is your need for change. For my memo, I decided 

that the purpose would be to bring attention to the need to continue Daca. After I figured out my 

purpose, I then identified who my audience would be. The audience is also vital because it allows 

you to know who you are addressing and also helps you determine what kind of word choice or 

language to use. The audience I was addressing was an unknown audience because I didn’t know the 

person.  

          

      I wanted my memo to not only explain why Daca was important, but give the audience a sense of 

the kind of emotion I was writing it with. For this reason, my stance was very subjective. My attitude 

was strong, but not too demanding because I didn’t want the audience to feel criticized and stop 

reading it. Finally, the rhetorical situation I took into account throughout my entire writing process 

was the genre. Every type of genre has its own style of writing, which is why when writing the 

memo, I followed the 5 segments: heading, opening, description, solution, and closing. Besides this, 

I took into account that a memo has to be brief. In the end this turned out to be the hardest because 

there was a lot more details I wanted to add.