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Assignment 1: Kevin's Situation

Kevin Johnson needs to cancel an order he placed last week with ABC Furniture. He provided a draft email to cancel the order, but it needs improvements to be more professional. The assignment is to review Kevin's email, consider aspects of organization, content, language and style, and submit an improved version for peer review. The improved email should address things like the subject line, greeting, email text, closing, punctuation, and capitalization.

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Assignment 1: Kevin's Situation

Kevin Johnson needs to cancel an order he placed last week with ABC Furniture. He provided a draft email to cancel the order, but it needs improvements to be more professional. The assignment is to review Kevin's email, consider aspects of organization, content, language and style, and submit an improved version for peer review. The improved email should address things like the subject line, greeting, email text, closing, punctuation, and capitalization.

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Assignment

1
For your first assignment, you will help a person named Kevin Johnson make improvements to
his email. Take a look at the following scenario before reading the email.

Kevin's Situation
Kevin is writing to an office furniture company called ABC Furniture. The purpose of the email is
to cancel an order he made last week. Read through the email a few times before moving on to
the next step.

Now, read Kevin Johnson's email below.

Kevin's Email
Subject Line: please cancel!

hi,

My name is kevin johnson. I want to cancel my order of the office chair that I ordered last
week. Please send me a full refund to my account.

kevin

What kind of changes can you make to this email in order to make it more professional and
accurate? It is your task to make those improvements based on what you learned in this
module. Here's a check list of things to consider:

Organization & Content

• Subject line
• Greeting
• Email Text
• Closing & Signature

Language Skills

• punctuation
• capitalization
Your new and improved version of Kevin Johnson's email will be reviewed by 3 other members
in this course. You will also get the opportunity to see how others have made improvements
and give them feedback as well.

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