Audience Analysis  

A PDF document for teachers to revise and adapt for their students. The worksheet helps writers to make audience-based decisions about content, organization, formatting, style, usage, and mechanics.

Zuidema, Leah A. Michigan State University (2003). Presentations>Rhetoric>Audience Analysis

Sample Memo  

A PDF document intended as a resource for teachers who want help describing the memo to students. This (relatively lengthy) sample memo attempts to make an all-too-familiar document strange again by explaining what it is and how to use it.

Zuidema, Leah A. Michigan State University (2003). Academic>Course Materials>Writing>Technical Writing

Technical Writing: An Overview  

A PDF document intended as a resource for teachers. The overview handout defines technical writing, lists examples, states rationale for teaching technical writing, reviews principles for writing instruction, explains basic technical writing concepts to be taught to students, and outlines methods for evaluating technical writing.

Zuidema, Leah A. Michigan State University (2003). Presentations>Writing>Technical Writing