Overview
Assignment Parameters: Create a SWOT

Instead of writing a typical memo for the final report, I’d like you to create a SWOT analysis.

This stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. If you work in branding, business, or venture investments, you may see this type of analysis regularly. When I wrote more pieces for commercial industry, this was a part of my writing and branding work.

Check out these templates for some ideas of how a SWOT analysis can look:

https://creately.com/blog/examples/swot-analysis-templates-creately/ (Links to an external site.)

There are many SWOT formats online, and I encourage you to Google them and see what appeals to you. You will focus your SWOT on your work throughout this class.

You may format this in whatever way you’d like. If you are creative, feel free to redesign the SWOT to match one of your topics. For any SWOT style you choose, you should include one paragraph (or equivalent bullet points) for each of the following areas of your self-analysis:

Strengths: What are the strengths in this course? What did you do well or what did you like the best?

Weaknesses: What didn’t turn out the way you wanted? What weaknesses can you identify?

Opportunities: What did you take advantage of? What worked in your favor…or could have worked if you’d done it sooner/better?

Threats: What worked against you? What outside factors or concepts made your work more difficult or less successful?