email: show what you know
Assignment
1. Write three emails in response to three different situations (described below)
2. Use the 7 tips presented by GrammarGirl (the focus on last week’s task and the previous blog post).
3. For our purposes, send each of these email messages to me (astott@sd73.bc.ca) from an appropriately professional email address of your own.
The Scenarios
- Scenario #1: You are a student at Barriere Secondary School. You know an assignment is due in a week that you will not be able to complete on time because of a test you have for another class. You also know that this teacher has a policy where late work is penalized except when students inform the professor ahead of time that the work will be late. Email your teacher to explain the situation and to ask for a one week extension.
- Scenario #2: You are a student, and as part of a class project, everyone is being asked to invite a speaker to an online class. Given the topic
of email correspondence, you are being asked to invite a busness owner or career professional, (perhaps the same one you write a business letter to earlier this semester) to a Zoom live “chat” to talk about some of the challenges and rewards of the business or career the person is engaged in. You are asking for the Zoom call to take place on April 15 or April 22.
- Scenario #3: You have been asked, as a leader in our school, to write a mass email that will be sent to all parents and students, that communicates key health and safety measures we are to be actively participating in as you are working and learning from home. Ensure that you are addressing physical and mental health concerns. In your email, attach links to TWO sources of information that are relevant to your audience (British Columbian, Interior Health, Canadian, families).
I look forward to receiving THREE emails from you. This assignment is due on THURSDAY. Ensuring that you use the 7 tips and follow them carefully in your email communication is essential.
This task has been heavily adapted from http://323.stevendkrause.com/assignments/email-writing-assignment/.
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