Memorandum 2 Business Memorandum Pre-Writing

Memorandum 2

General Education Assignment 2 (#GEA 2)

2.1 Business Memorandum Pre-Writing

Assignment Due: March 23 by 11:59 PM

This document must be uploaded to this assignment AND to the peer review assignment 2.2 on the due date.

No late assignments will be accepted.

Note: This assignment is set up with a Grammar and Spelling Check. After completing this assignment, this is an additional tool for you to use before handing in the final memorandum. If you do not recognize what the problem is you can click on the indicator and look at a guide to help you understand the identified grammar issue. If there are significant problems identified on your final memorandum you will lose points for not having completed adequate grammar and spelling checks.

You can complete this assignment after reading Chapters 3 and 4 in your textbook and Writing Assignment 2 reading. The problem involves selecting a major vendor through comparative analysis.

Writing Requirements

This assignment is the first of four steps in completing the business memorandum. This assignment will require you to:

1. Solve a statistics problem – you will solve the statistics problem and include it in this assignment (in the appendix.) – You will use the calculations you complete to inform the recommendation you make for this problem.
2. Answer the problem questions included in the assignment template -through doing this you will articulate an understanding of the problem and what you are being asked to do with that problem, the value of the statistical calculation to addressing the problem, and who the audience you are asked to address is and how their role and status will influence what and how you write your memorandum.
3. Complete a draft of the memorandum – through doing this you will demonstrate an ability to understand and explain a statistical problem
   1. Using language appropriate to the professional status and background of the audience you are addressing.
   2. Presenting a detailed analysis for this audience to understand what you have done and have confidence in your recommendation.
   3. Present the memorandum such that elements flow (Links to an external site.) in a clear professional way.

To complete this assignment you will use:

• The Business Memorandum Template – open this template and complete the assignment in it
• The Business Memorandum Guide – this will provide guidance on the content of the memorandum
• The problem description below – this is the statistical problem you will address.

You may also reference the Business Memorandum example to see what the completed assignment will look like.

What will you be graded on?

This assignment will be graded on completeness ONLY. However, it is the document on which you will get feedback from your classmates, so you should produce your best work, in order to get the best possible feedback. Be sure to look at the assignment rubric to assure that you have completed the required elements prior to turning in the assignment.

Problem Description

In this section, you will find a description of the problem, requested recommendation and audience for the final memorandum for this assignment. This problem will require you to write clearly about a particular part of a car. If you are not familiar with the workings of a car engine a simple google search for videos about the particular component of the motor you will be writing about will allow you to write about it accurately.

Description:

You are a line manager in Super Car Part’s Eversville manufacturing facility. The company produces automotive parts, and you have responsibility for the line producing steel shafts for the gearbox manufactured in the Eversville Plant. The acceptable dimension of the shaft is 2.5±0.05 inches in diameter with the most desirable product having a diameter of exactly 2.5 inches. The current equipment is approaching the end of its useful life and needs to be replaced. Two vendors are trying to sell your company, Super Car Parts Incorporated, their machines for the shaft-machining task. You have been asked to assess the machines from each vendor, and to make a recommendation for a machine vendor supported by a justification for your decision.

You asked both vendors to supply data on the machining accuracy of their machines for the given task. Both vendors machined 100 shafts, collected data, plotted histograms, fitted the histograms with normal distributions and supplied you with their findings.

Let X= diameter in inches of the gearbox shaft

Aballo Machines Inc.: X has a normal distribution with a mean of 2.49 and a standard deviation of 0.030

Lu Equipment Corp.: X has a normal distribution with a mean of 2.53 and a standard deviation of 0.015

Audience: You are creating this document for the company’s Chief Operating Officer (Links to an external site.), Lenore Georges, and copying the Chief Financial Officer, (Links to an external site.) Anahita Kourosh. Documents involved in major financial decisions like this may also be distributed by the addressees to other executives and the corporate board members.

Tone: The Audience for this document requires that the style is precise and professional.

• Utilize plain language when describing your analysis, as you cannot assume all readers will be statistically literate. However, there are also some who will understand statistics and will want to understand the statistical logic that you used to determine your recommendation.
• Start the document with a summary that readers can read to understand the essential elements of the document – the context of the issue, what is being examined and how, and the recommendation you will make.
• Develop the document around a direct, coherent message (thesis), and clear evidence to support it.
• Do not use contractions, slang or colloquialisms (Links to an external site.), clichés (Links to an external site.), abbreviations, or text message shortcuts.

Rubric

GEA 2.1 Pre-Writing 2020 S