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ENG 1205-01 Home Page Letter and E-mail Assignments (Due Tuesday, 1/29)

LETTER ASSIGNMENT (100 points)

Write a 1-page letter to a person, company, or other organization. You may choose from one of the following purposes of letters discussed on page 48 of Chapter 2:

The topic of your letter is up to you, as long as it is a real situation that either you or someone you know is involved in. For instance, you could write a letter of inquiry to a company and ask how that company uses written communication. Or you could write a sales letter that promotes one of your company's own products or services. Or you could write a claim letter to register your dissatisfaction with a recent purchase or dining experience. 

Your audience for your letter must be a real person. You may need to make a phone call to an organization to ask who the appropriate individual would be to receive your letter. Make sure that you find out your reader's name and position. Writing "To Whom It May Concern" is not acceptable.

In terms of format, you may use the modified block style with indented paragraphs, the modified block style, or the full block style (all introduced on page 48 of Chapter 2). Make sure to adhere to the other format, organization, and content guidelines on pages 60-62.

E-MAIL ASSIGNMENT (100 points)

Type an e-mail in response to Exercise 2.5, 2.6, or 2.8 on pages 44-46.

Send your e-mail to kirk_lockwood@ivcc.edu. Though you will send the e-mail to me so that I can grade it, write the e-mail to the reader or readers specified in the exercise itself. Make sure to provide a subject line that would be appropriate for the e-mail if it actually were sent in a business setting (i.e. don't use ENG 1205 E-mail Assignment or something like that, which would mean nothing to the intended reader or readers).