Lately, I undertook a new task in our communication class:
Writing a memo for a specific audience.
This proved to be a little more challenging than initially figured. I quickly learned that task of changing one's narrative and address the reader with a formal tone can be difficult to achieve. A careful balance between formality and compassion must be struck so as not to see too rude. It is a unique task to be able to sanitize your writing style to conform to a predefined set of rules your not even fully aware of. There seems to be a set of etiquette rules of business communication that is handed to you upon your hiring in a large corporation. Clearly, that's not the case. It is obviously learned painfully on the job, or through such course designed to sterilize your narrative of its mannerisms. I don't know if I care for it.
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