4. Analytical Memorandum Report on Promotion of Colleague. In the academic world of colleges and universities, several persons are asked to write short letters or memorandums evaluating persons within their own school or for persons outside. Even in the business world requests may come to you—as a member of the Human Resources (HR) Department— to write such an analysis. In fact, one of your authors has written several as- sessments of individuals in companies for which he has consulted, with the intent of offering an opinion on specific criteria. Those criteria vary from company to company. But the result is the same: Give an analysis of that in- dividual’s performance as measured against several criteria.