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Assignment Task For Technical and Business Writing

The document provides tasks for students to write an introductory email to their instructor and to write a letter as a group addressing issues found with a new truck model. The email task requires students to describe their course goals, employment, activities, and communication skills. The group letter task requires addressing potential issues found with reserve gas tanks that could explode on impact from side collisions.

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Assignment Task For Technical and Business Writing

The document provides tasks for students to write an introductory email to their instructor and to write a letter as a group addressing issues found with a new truck model. The email task requires students to describe their course goals, employment, activities, and communication skills. The group letter task requires addressing potential issues found with reserve gas tanks that could explode on impact from side collisions.

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Task 1.

Introductory Email to Instructor


I want to know more about you, your motivation for taking this course, your career goals, and your writing skills.
See, P. 167 – 172 , (Technical Communication, Pfeiffer) for guidance.
Send an email to [email protected] by 7 am on Monday , 4th September, 2023.
Include an appropriate subject in the subject line.
The email should concisely describe the following:
Your course goals for the semester
A description of your employment, if any, and your favorite activities
An assessment of your current communication skills, including strengths and weaknesses

Grading Rubric for Email.

Did you email the assignment to [email protected] by 7am, __________


Did you summarize the main idea in the subject line?
Was the appropriate salutation included?
Did the body concisely describe each of the required components?
Was the body organized into paragraphs so it was easy to read quickly?
Did the email end with a summary or closing thought?
Did you include full contact information after your name?
Was the email free of any grammatical errors or typos?

Task for Class Case Study

Consider yourself as the spokes person of the company, in group of 4, have to write a letter to address the issues to the truck
dealers. Provide reasonable material to address the issue.

Just as your automobile company is about to unveil its new pickup truck, your safety engineering team discovers that
the reserve gas tanks (installed beneath the truck but outside the frame) may, in rare circumstances, explode on
impact form aside collision. You know that this information should be included in the owner’s manual In a letter to the
truck dealers. But the company has spent a fortune or at a maximum. building this truck and does not want to hear
about this problem.

Bring your key points written and well explained in to the next class for discussion.
Every member of the group Have to bring in the notes for discussion under the heading created in class.

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