English 222: Technical Writing — Corporate Documents Unit

Corporate Documents Unit Overview

This unit covers a variety of standard technical document formats.

Advertising Copy

• Flyers & Brochures

Email

• Email Privacy Policies
  • IUP Privacy Policy (can you find it?)
  • Gmail Privacy Policy
  • Yahoo Mail Privacy Policy
• Email Used in Legal Cases
  • Internal Corporate Memos
  • CNN Article about Internal Memos Online
• Technology Civility 101 at IUP
• Guidelines: Email
  • Sample: Inappropriate Email
  • Sample: Appropriate Email
• Email Etiquette
  • FEMA Email Exchanges during Hurricane Katrina (2005)
  • Netiquette (by Virgina Shea)
    • Core Rules of Netiquette

Letters

• Job Application Letter (Cover Letter) Writing
  • TechJournal11: Work Experiences
  • Task: Job Application Letter Critiques
    • Sample Job Application Letter #1 (Smith)
    • Sample Job Application Letter #2 (Sanchez)
    • Sample Job Application Letter #3 (Robinson)
  • Guidelines: Writing Effective Job Letters
    • Sample: Effective Job Application Letter (Short Version)
    • Sample: Effective Job Application Letter (Long Version)
  • Sample Critique: Ineffective Job Application Letter #1
  • Sample: Job Advertisement
  • Assignment: Cover Letter

Memos

• Task: Memo about Campus Problem
• Internal Corporate Memos

Newsletters

• Newsletters

Progress Reports

• Guidelines: Writing Progress Reports (Version A)
• Guidelines (Version B)
• Guidelines: Writing Progress Reports (Version B)
• Sample: Student Progress Report
• Sample
• Sample: Business Progress Report
• Task: Technical Writing Progress Report