ABSTRACT
This chapter presents seven sections of highly specialized writing projects where students communicate specialized professional information in task-oriented formats. Those are: posting to social media and websites, writing a policy memo, analytical case study, problem-solving case study, participant observation and internship report, grant writing and writing a project report. Each format has limited value beyond the narrow purpose for the communication, depending on whether it is correspondence with other professionals or with the public. There are multiple professional communication formats, each designed to reach different audiences for different purposes. Decision-makers in public, nonprofit, and private-sector organizations depend on these memos to provide them with substantive information in a concise, accessible format. Information on the rise of self-represented litigants also exists in a qualitative form. The system’s policy required all reports that included sensitive information to be labeled “personal and confidential.”
