Meeting Agenda
Purpose:
- Practice writing an agenda and meeting minutes for a meeting in your industry
- Understand the necessary elements for formatting an agenda and minutes
- Practice concise and accurate note taking
Required Reading/Viewing
- Content Page for Meetings, Agendas, and Minutes
- Research some examples of industry-specific writing documents
For this assignment, you will need to choose one of the following scenarios/settings:
- Use an actual work or school meeting
- Write an agenda for the meeting
- Take notes during the meeting and prepare meeting minutes based on your notes
- Use a class lecture
- Take notes during the class lecture
- Write up an agenda and minutes based on the class lecture
- If option 1 & 2 are impossible for you, then your last resort would be to create an agenda for a brown bag meeting (Links to an external site.) for a meeting with a representative of your organization- the organization you will be completing a communication audit.
Assignment Requirements:
Prepare an Agenda and a set of Meeting Minutes. Please submit one document for both assignments. If you aren’t using a real meeting, then you will need to make up any information that would be part of a normal meeting.
Your 50-points will be evaluated in the following way:
- Correctly formatted Agenda — 20 points
- Concisely yet thorough and properly formatted Minutes — 20 points
- Free of grammatical and spelling errors — 10 points (-1 point for each error)