Archive for May 4, 2008
Shipping Increase Letter
This was our first group project, and while it was not a major assignment, it was still a challenge for my group and me. We were put into groups of four by Dr. Art Fricke to plan a successful persuasive business letter report.
The business letter report was based on an assignment description from our textbook which was a hypothetical situation, as always. Our letter was to contain all of the information in the exercise description very organized and clearly.
Everyone in our group decided to name our place of business Eagle Office Supply. The persuasive business correspondence that we were writing was directed to our loyal customers concerning an increase in shipping rates. The main goal of our letter was to persuade our customers to not be upset by the unfortunate changes. We advised them of the two weeks notice change and offered other companies’ prices to guarantee that our company, Eagle Office Supply, was still the cheapest and best way to go. Finally, we created our own logo to put on the corner of our letter which was an encircled eagle.
When we finished, all of our group members edited the report very professionally with some help from Dr. Art Fricke. This assignment not only taught us how to write a professionally persuasive business letter report, but to also work with others. Since this was our first assigned group project I received the opportunity to experience my peer’s work ethics. This would help me contemplate, in the future, whether I would like to work with them again or work with new people.
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Trucking Incident Memo
Just as the Committee Progress Email Report taught me how to successfully write an internal progress report, this assignment, Trucking Incident Memo, also gave me the opportunity to write an internal progress report based on an exercise from the textbook.
Again, I was to follow all of the guidelines and make sure that I included all of the information that the exercise description contained. The format of this report was done as a memo.
The memo was created around a hypothetical situation. I was the Traffic Manager preparing a memo for the President of the company I worked for, Spangler Trucking, Inc. In this memo, I explained trucking operating accidents of the week of January 20, 2008.
The first item in the memo was a list of all of the people present in the company’s mandatory Accident Review meeting. Next, I wrote in detail about an extensive review regarding a total of four highway accidents that were the result of faulty tires that our delivery company trucks were operating on. I included an accident summary, and a section of the accident details.
In the conclusion of the memo I explained how our insurance company, Acme Underwriters, filed a lawsuit against the tire manufacturer, Speed’s Tire Manufacturer. I explained how this would prevent a reoccurrence of such an accident again.
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Committee Progress Email Report
Committee Progress Email Report
The goal of this specific assignment was to create a successful informal internal progress report according to a hypothetical description from our text book.
In this case the hypothetical situation was based on physicians from a hospital that were facing being reappointed for committees. In this assignment I was a Medical Staff Administrative Assistant at Lubbock Caring Hospital. I was writing a memo notifying the Hospital Director about work that I had already completed and work that I had scheduled to complete regarding the reappointment of committees project.
The assignment called for an email that included all of the information given in the exercise in the textbook. The email was supposed to contain all of the basic goals of an informal internal progress report.
I was to think about how to organize the information clearly and what my potential audience would need from this report. Also, how to meet those specific needs that my audience requested very effectively.
Finally, the Committee Progress Email Report taught me how to successfully write an informal internal progress report. I learned the basic goals that an informal internal progress report needs in order to be effective. Most importantly, I learned how to meet special needs that my audience requests effectively.
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