This memo was written to critically analyze the redesign I did for English 202c. The ultimate goal of the project was to effectively apply the ideas and concepts learned throughout the semester by taking a piece of technical writing and redesigning it to improve it. My main goal in the redesign was to improve the stylistic and visual coherence design decisions of the document. I have always analyzed the purpose of the document and revised it to allow the reader to understand when it is correct to use the waterfall method. Style improvements: Document style improvements started at the document title and continued all the way to the bottom. The title has been rewritten to provide more information to the reader. The original title "SDLC waterfall model" was not concise enough. I changed the title to fully spell out the abbreviation "SDLC" to clarify for readers who were unfamiliar with the abbreviation. Furthermore, I thought it appropriate to give the document the subtitle "The Waterfall Method". Note that I changed the word "model" to "method" because the model refers to the logical design of the method and the document was about the method. The next stylistic improvement came in the choice of font and titles. Because I believe the original author intended the document to be for print, I changed the titles to a san-serif font and the body of the document to a serif font. I also improved the subtitles of the “Pros and Cons” section of the original document. I wanted to make the section title clearer, so I changed the name to "Advantages and Disadvantages of the Waterfall Method" and added "Advantages" and "Disadvantages" to the subtitles. These improvements to the design choices have cleaned up the document, making it more aes...... middle of paper...... document. I don't think anyone would read this document just to get more information about the waterfall method, but instead they would read it to see if the waterfall method is the best choice as a design methodology for them. Providing examples of when to use the waterfall method and examples of when not to provides the reader with the knowledge needed to make this decision. Summary: The original document was clearly deficient, and no professional organization should have released such a poor document to the public. The redesign serves as a better replacement for the original in all aspects of design. I applied the techniques taught in this course and was able to redesign a document that was much better than the original. This course taught me to have a critical eye when reading technical documents and how to best approach my technical writing.