Summary
For your Personal Correspondence assignment, you will write a memo describing a difficult situation in your life that involves other people and then
write a document in which you ask these other people to change their action(s).
Choosing a situation
Draw on a difficult situation in your life in which you wish you would have communicated something to another person or other people, but didn't dare.
It should be the kind of situation in which you wish you could have changed some action(s) of the other person or people.
Start by brainstorming workplace situations, and if that does not produce a situation that's appropriate for this assignment, then brainstorm educational, communal, and finally social situations.
Memo
Write a 250+ word Memo to your instructor and classmates describing . . .
- the situation,
- your audience (the other person or people),
- and your purpose (the action(s) you wish to change).
Personal Correspondence
Write a document addressed to the other person or people in which you attempt to change their action(s).
This Personal Correspondence may take the form of a letter, memo, or e-mail, whichever is most appropriate for your situation and audience.
Be careful not to use this correspondence as an opportunity to vent your emotions.
Write the correspondence in a way that would optimally elicit your audience to read it and accept your recommended action(s).
The correspondence should be at least 200 words long and clearly and fully formatted as a letter, memo, or e-mail. (Note: you do not have to send them this correspondence for real.)
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