ASSIGNMENT (Worth: 25 points)<\/b><\/p>\n
The purpose of this assignment is to: <\/p>\n
1. Analyze business letters for effective use of information.<\/p>\n
2. Use the correct words in communicating ideas and information.Thus, you will develop your skills at writing either<\/b> a badnews memo or a persuasive memo and apply what you’ve learned aboutintegrating proper grammar, mechanics, and usage.<\/p>\n
3. Use correctly direct, indirect, and persuasive messages.<\/p>\n
SCENARIO OPTION #1: Bad News Memo Document Makeover<\/b><\/p>\n
Melissa Dugan, Global Business Communications HR Benefits Manager,is requesting your help with the Bad News Memo about corporate health insurancechanges.<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Read Melissa Dugan’s Bad News Memo draft (see below, page 2).<\/p>\n
SCENARIO OPTION #2: Persuasive Memo Document Makeover <\/b><\/p>\n
Shauna Eckert, Global Business Communications Events Planner, isrequesting your help with the Persuasive Memo about reducing absenteeism andimproving productivity.<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Read Shauna Eckert’s Persuasive Memo draft (see below, page 3).<\/p>\n
INSTRUCTIONS <\/b><\/p>\n
To meet the Unit 4 assignment requirements, you may choose torespond to EITHER<\/b> the Bad News Memo Document Makeover (Option #1) OR <\/b>thePersuasive Memo Document Makeover (Option #2).<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Correct the memo using Interoffice memoformat (To, From, Subject, Date). <\/b>See pp. 163, A-15, A-16.<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Be sure to change all of thedates<\/b> to current. <\/p>\n
\u00b7 Effectively communicate the ideas and information byincorporating the correct wording, spelling, punctuation, usage, andmechanics in your rewritten memo. See the “Handbook of Grammar, Mechanics,and Usage” to guide you.<\/p>\n
NOTE:<\/b> You neednot use the Track Changes feature or highlight your changes. Rewriting the memowill indicate your changes.<\/p>\n
SUBMISSION <\/b><\/p>\n
Upload your document makeover in Microsoft Word (.doc) or RichText Format (.rtf) as a file attachment by the scheduled due date (see theCourse Schedule). If you do not have MS Word or Rich Text Format, download\/usethe open source (free) MS Word-like program from www.OpenOffice.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ASSIGNMENT (Worth: 25 points) The purpose of this assignment is to: 1. Analyze business letters for effective use of information. 2. Use the correct words in communicating ideas and information.Thus, you will develop your skills at writing either a badnews memo or a Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}