Using writeEEPROM after writeNDEFText

[dme8a8]

  Serial.println(F("Writing the first NDEF Text record"));

  tag.writeNDEFText("First write", &memLoc, true, false);

  tag.writeNDEFText("2nd write", &memLoc, false, false);

  uint8_t a[10] = {0x01, 0x02, 0x03, 0x04};

  tag.writeEEPROM(&memLoc,a, 4);

In this example, tag.writeEEPROM is not getting written, because writeEEPROM() requires the base EEPROM adress, not a pointer to a uint16_t containing the start address. Is there any reason for this difference in the API?