correspondence Assignment

How to Write Correspondence  – Campus Issues (100 points)

This assignment is intended to combine the research process and correspondence  professionally. In research, you have to gather, summarize, and organize information before you can interpret it. Then in interpreting it, you must be able to answer questions and solve problems.  You will choose a specific issue (s) you feel effects students on this campus  and create 3 pieces of correspondence on this topic. Consider the issue of ethics in your response.

You will be writing the following:

• Letter – Consider this a letter of concern about the specific issue [30 points]

• Memo – Consider this memo a discovery about the specific issue with research [50 points] –

• Email – Consider this email a call to action on the specific issue. [20 points]

Purpose:

The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate abilities in writing correspondence. You should keep the 4 keys in mind while writing each one of your pieces.

Format:

• Please follow the proper format for each of the pieces of correspondence – all are sampled and outlined in your text and in the chapter you read for this unit as this WILL be a factor in your grade [headings, salutations, closings, etc.]. As far as research from the memo – you will need only 2 outside researched sources [statistics, facts, etc. will work too]. You can address your correspondence to whoever you would like.

• There is no specific page minimum. Like all business correspondence, it isn’t about reaching a page number, rather it is about provided the necessary information you feel your audience needs to understand.

In the case of the letter – consider – what specific issue should the audience be concerned about?

For the memo, what issue did you discover that the audience should be aware of?

Finally, for the email, what would you want your audience to do in regards to the issue you identified?