Grading Criteria

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Reflects careful research into and thought about what you wanted to know about this person, company, and/or career:

• the basics–your career interests, who you interviewed, their place of employment, the date and time of the interview
• how the interview went, in general, what you asked and what your respondent said–a summary
• what you learned from this interview
• what you wish you learned

Follows generic conventions for memos:

• Header information
• Header punctuation
• Single-spaced, block paragraphs
• Initialed at name

Organized to help the reader through the information:

• professional design
• consistent choices (fonts, spacing, capitalization, etc.) in keeping with Non Designers info

• helps reader understand more about you and your projected career interests
• clearly organized, forecasts, employs transitions
• carefully written, care with word choice, appropriate diction and consistent point-of-view

Shows adequate attention to proofing, editing