1. Types of Projects
A GUIDE TO CREATING
YOUR FINAL PROJECT IN
PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH

2. When You Memo Me
 The labels of the contents of the memo’s body:
 Theme
 Target audience or beneficiaries
 Type of project
 Benefits of the project
 Green aspect
 Why it is simple
 Why it is viable or profitable
 Why or how it is an original idea
 It should clearly show (don’t say it) a relationship
to your major course of study.

3. Information Technology Majors
 If you are going to be an IT major, your
project should be related to
o information and to
o technology.
 Remember the meaning of
"information" and of "technology" as
given during my lecture.

4. Business Majors
 For business majors, the project should be
related to business, so include these in your
memo:
 Product or service
 Target market
 Capital or investment
 Materials and/or equipment
 Profit

5. General Theme
 The project theme is about going green.
 This can mean:
 protecting the environment,
 conserving resources, or
 recycling resources
 Specify which one.

6. Target Audience
 The project is useful to a specific group of
receivers in your home province, in your
country of origin.
 Specify the target audience, receivers or
beneficiaries.
 Specify how this project is useful to
them, or how they will benefit from this
project.

7. PROJECT TYPES
TYPES OF "GOING GREEN" PROJECTS

8. In your Memo
 Show (not tell) your project type.
 It can be any one or a combination of:
 Adding Value(s)
 Conserving Value(s)
 Improving Value(s)
 Preserving Value(s)
 Creating Value (s)

9. Adding Value(s)
 Improve something
 Decrease the disadvantages
 Increase the usefulness
 Increase the advantages
 Increase access to information about it
o The merits
o The demerits

10. Conserving Value(s)
 Conserving:
 Resources:
energy, money, effort, time,
 Environment (i.e., recycle waste products)
 Create information or guides to save
time, effort, money, or environment
 Create information about available
resources that can help solve problems;

11. Improving Value(s)
 Increase user access (make something
easier for a target audience to use)
 Information (how to)
 Improve the usability of something that is
difficult to use
 Improve usefulness of something that is
always used
 Increase user choices of something

12. Preserving Value(s)
 Preserving cultural knowledge, cultural
information, disappearing
practices, forgotten knowledge
 Collect,organize, share knowledge from
around the world regarding something
 Increase access to knowledge or values to
your target audience or to a larger
audience

13. Creating Value(s)
 Creating a new or original
 product,
 process,
 skill,
 attitude, or idea
… that is useful to a specific receiver or
target audience.

14. Tips
 Think outside the box. Be creative.
 Keep it very simple, and make it very
effective.
 Save paper, ink, money, energy, and
space.
 Do not print on paper unless it is
absolutely necessary.