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Harvard Teaches Memos - Coggle Diagram
Harvard Teaches Memos
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- What problem is being raised? Is the memo simply notifying or trying to solve the problem in some way?
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Memo from the State of New York to Pfizer:
Solves the problem of New York not getting enough doses for the people to fight against COVID-19
- Take a look at how the memo begins. How does it orient the reader to its purpose?
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As some readers are not experts in the area and lack of knowledge, the author have to give an introduction to the topic. The readers can be very busy so a summary of background information can be a good way to help readers understand the later content better.
Pfizer is oriented to the purpose as selling the doses in mass quantity, directly to the government allows Pfizer to earn profit, and additionally it would also allow the company to use a more streamlined way to give the doses to the people suffering against COVID-19
- Does the memo answer the “so what?”“ or ”who cares?"" questions?
The memo commission of education responds to the cares question and so what by saying that students and the school district will benefit from a positive environment and so will parents. It will also result in higher levels of success fro everyone.
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The memo closure of ICE detentions facilities answers the so what and who cares questions by stating that government funds are being wasted and that it could be spent in better alternatives. It also affects young women and children causing them to be abused and be neglected when they need assistance in medical aspects.
The memo put focus on the people of New York and how the pandemic made everyone care about the unavailability of doses to the people. The 'So what?' of the memo was quite self explanatory as during the pandemic, the foremost priority was if the doses were available or not.
- How would you describe the tone and style?
I want to describe the style as concise and understandable. The memos are not as long and complicated as essays. The authors try to help readers to get to know their opinion as quickly and precisely as possible.
The memo from the state of New York to Pfizer was concise, straight to the point and well summarised. The current situation was explained, the problem was explained, a request was made, and how that request would benefit a bigger crowd was explained.
- How does the memo handle outside sources? Evidence?
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There's generally a small part of the evidence that is mentioned in the memos. Generally an annotated bibliography at the end of the memo would work really well to provide personal opinion on the evidence and explain how it helps in providing evidence for the memo.
- Do you notice any summary?
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Although there wasn't much of a summary for any situation, the entire memo was kept short and concise and straight to the point.
- What do you notice about how the document is broken down into smaller parts, or other things that writer does to aid readability?
The documents is break down very effectively according to sections such as background, analysis and solution. I think by doing this readers can read the memo much more easily and quickly. This is very imporytant because the readers can be very busy.
Due to keeping the memo short and concise, there was no smaller parts to the document. I think this was done so because the memo didn't need any aid for readability because of how self-explanatory the entire memo was.
- Do you notice any old/new contract?
The old contract was that the state of New York would either have to request the Federal Government to release more doses or for the common people, they would have to buy it from Pfizer themselves. The new contact was that the State of New York would buy the doses directly from Pfizer because Pfizer wasn't bound by commitments.
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