Day 21: Final Project (3)

Objectives
Students will be able to
a) review concepts associated with audience and purpose analysis.
b) write a reflective paragraph about these two elements with respect to the case study memo.
c) be aware of the differences and similarities between a thesis statement and a problem statement. 
d) write a reflection on the effectiveness of the problem statement in the case study assigned for analysis.


I.  Analyzing audience and purpose
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II. Thesis statement vs problem statement
A problem statement is similar to a thesis statement:

Both describe the purpose of the paper.

Both have a claim that has to be proven.

Both are specific and focused

A problem statement describes a main issue in order to potentially solve it. That is why it is called a "problem" statement. In order to write the problem statement, we have to know exactly what the problem is, right? So, instead of having a thesis statement in the intro, a case study memo  will have a problem statement. 

 

A problem statement is different from a thesis statement:

A problem statement describes an issue intended to solve.

A problem statement includes a vision, issue statement, and steps used to solve the problem.

A problem statement is not a purpose statement (the purpose is to solve the issue)

In a recommendation memo, the audience already knows the background context, but what the audience wants to see is the problem statement and the potential solutions (recommendations) to the problem. So, this is why this particular case study recommendation memo has a summary of recommendations (potential solutions) in the introduction. This explanation connects back to audience and purpose as well.

Sources:

Materials and ideas come from the class, Review of Thesis Statement and Purpose & Engineering Acitivty 2.  Created by Janice Kim & Jin Kim summer 2012. Retrieved from

http://esl505ta.blogspot.com/2012/07/day-18.html