One page, the example is following below. It is the example for another essay, so you just need to write one for this essay in the same way.
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To: Amy Carleton
From:
Date: December 7, 2017
RE: Project 3 Context Memo: Faster Future: 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G, and … 5G
For the explainer assignment, I chose to write about the telecommunication technology,
because the topic is hot everywhere in the past few years. For instance, mobile carriers
constantly try to convince users that they have the best technologies in their hands. They
all advertised that their networks were almost ready for the next-‐generation 5G systems. In
addition, it seems that many of my friends have heard of 5G. They all know that something
faster would be coming soon. Unfortunately, when I asked whether they understood the
fundamentals of the systems, almost no one could give me answer. I also chose my topic
due to my interest in digital communication and signal processing, the areas that I focus on.
Before writing this article, I looked online to collect the ‘right’ information from different
sources. To my surprise, I found that I misunderstood many concepts of how each
telecommunication generation works. I found one good source with beautiful illustrations
from one big mobile chip manufacturer, Qualcomm. It provided me a very clear picture on
how the system worked and gave me an intuition on how I should translate technical
languages to general audiences. I have collected information from each generation
separately. After I collected them, I tried to find the transitions between them.
The target audience of this article is for people who are interested in technology in general.
I expect the article to be in the two-‐column basic technical magazine format, which I have
mocked it in my submission. I hope the article is suitable for those who routinely read IEEE
Spectrum, a magazine for general audiences who are interested in technology. The article
does not require any prior knowledge in digital communications. At the same time, I try to
make the article approachable and not boring for them. As I talked to Amy, I had inserted
many historical anecdotes and examples along the way from the start point to the end
point. Those anecdotes must be topics that most of people share common experiences.
They are getting more important at the halfway of the article, as people might get lost
there. I decided to insert a Steve Job’s announcement on iPhone 3G to better visualize the
3G era. Moreover, I have created some illustrations by my own, hoping they can clarify
some confusing ideas, such as FDMA and TDMA.
As I wrote, I found that there were many important ideas that the readers should know if
they really wanted to understand the subject. At the end, I decided to insert most of
important topics into my article. Due to a massive amount of information, a good strategy is
to make significant words bold, so that the readers can catch eyes on them and do not get
lost. The by-‐product benefit is for those readers who just want to skim through and read
only the parts they want to read.
All in all, I hope that the article at least clarifies the difference between telecommunication
technologies and delivers the right information to the readers. At the same time, I expect
the readers to enjoy historical anecdotes and developments of telecommunications. I also
hope they appreciate their smartphones and the technology behind them even more.
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