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Step 2
Once you have identified your artifact / document, you will want to begin your analysis. In order to complete this analysis, you will depend heavily on the information from your textbook, specifically the “Measures of Excellence in Technical Documents” on page 12 in Chapter 1, where Markel and Selber give the visual with the nine measures of excellence. (Make sure you are using the Measures of Excellence in Technical Documentation infographic and NOT the Characteristics of a Technical Documentation.) Use these measures as a way to test your document and its effectiveness.
You will need to ask yourself questions such as “Who is the intended audience for this document?”; “How / where would this item be read?”; “When / where did it first appear?” and other questions that allow you to think about why the document was created and what its actual purpose is, as well, before beginning the careful analysis.

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Step 3
Once you have completed your analysis of the document, write up your findings in a memo addressed to me. You will find the information for memo format on pages 248-250 of your textbook. The categories of the memo that are listed in the book might not work for this particular assignment, so it will be up to you to decide how you want to organize the information in the memo. The information on formatting and headings from Chapter 7 will likely be helpful here.
As you write the memo, be sure to focus on detail. Use examples from the document to show us what you mean, rather than just writing that the document does or does not meet the standard for excellence. This assignment is called an “Analysis,” which means that you will need to look below just surface level things like how the document appears and the basic information listed (though those things are important too). You will want to be sure to analyze the document and not get caught up in just describing it.

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