Week 5 discussion 1 and 2

Discussion Topic for Week 5: Writing a Memo to Your Instructor about Your White Paper Topic

In this discussion topic, your response to this discussion is due by this week Friday at midnight Eastern Standard Time (EST).

You are also asked to respond to at least one other student in the class on his or her response.

Your response to your fellow student is due by this week Sunday at midnight Eastern Standard Time (EST).

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This discussion topic is designed to help you get started on a topic for writing assignment #4, the white paper.

Before responding to this discussion topic, please make sure to watch the video. "The Basic Memo,"

This is the link for the video file:///C:/Users/slydi/AppData/Local/Temp/Temp1_The%20Basic%20Memo.html.zip/The%20Basic%20Memo.html

For this discussion topic, please post a memo to your instructor indicating your topic for your white paper, the problem or issue you will be addressing, and the "new approaches" you will be suggesting for addressing the problem.  Keep in mind the instructions given in the Purdue OWL lecture on white papers as you consider the problem or issue and new approaches.

In addition, in your memo, please indicate what the audience would be for your white paper and why this particular audience would be interested in your white paper.