LETTER REPORT
Budget: $10 – $30 CAD
Select a product or service that you now use. It could be your cell phone plan, Internet service provider, local water or electricity company, insurance company, or some other product or service you regularly use.
Imagine the company must raise its rates by at least 20%, and you are the employee who must write a business letter to notify customers.
Gather as much information as you can about the product or service: Why is the increase necessary? What benefits might there be to customers as a result of the increase?
Write a business letter using a Template and the indirect pattern:
PART 1: Buffer ....... :)
PART 2: Reasons .... :|
PART 3: Bad News .. :(
PART 4: Closing ..,.... :)
See Slides, and Samples for further information and examples of indirect pattern.
Include the following Letter features:
Sender's company name and address*
Dateline
Inside (receiver's) name and address*
Salutation ("Dear Mr. ___" or "Dear Ms. ___")
3+ paragraphs
1+ bulleted list(s)
Complimentary close
Signature space (3-4 blank lines)
Your name and title of position in company
*Please follow Canadian address format.
You must write the assignment using your own words and using your own original thinking or analysis.
If you use any secondary sources (work published by an author on websites, or in books, journals, or magazines) they should be there to support your own original words and thoughts, not to replace them
If you use secondary sources you must use the 3-step process of citation:
1) put quotation marks (“ “) around the text that is from another source
2) put in-text references in brackets following the citation and using the APA citation style
3) put a Reference List at the end of your assignment giving a detailed and alphabetized description of your secondary sources listed according to APA style requirements
I need it within 12 hours .
Imagine the company must raise its rates by at least 20%, and you are the employee who must write a business letter to notify customers.
Gather as much information as you can about the product or service: Why is the increase necessary? What benefits might there be to customers as a result of the increase?
Write a business letter using a Template and the indirect pattern:
PART 1: Buffer ....... :)
PART 2: Reasons .... :|
PART 3: Bad News .. :(
PART 4: Closing ..,.... :)
See Slides, and Samples for further information and examples of indirect pattern.
Include the following Letter features:
Sender's company name and address*
Dateline
Inside (receiver's) name and address*
Salutation ("Dear Mr. ___" or "Dear Ms. ___")
3+ paragraphs
1+ bulleted list(s)
Complimentary close
Signature space (3-4 blank lines)
Your name and title of position in company
*Please follow Canadian address format.
You must write the assignment using your own words and using your own original thinking or analysis.
If you use any secondary sources (work published by an author on websites, or in books, journals, or magazines) they should be there to support your own original words and thoughts, not to replace them
If you use secondary sources you must use the 3-step process of citation:
1) put quotation marks (“ “) around the text that is from another source
2) put in-text references in brackets following the citation and using the APA citation style
3) put a Reference List at the end of your assignment giving a detailed and alphabetized description of your secondary sources listed according to APA style requirements
I need it within 12 hours .