Assignment Question
The Topic I choose is: Professional email advocating for a change at work Showcase Your Skills! You can earn the Intentional Communicator digital badge when you earn a minimum grade of 74% on this assignment. Learn more about General Studies digital badges. In any career you choose, you will need to make decisions when communicating. For example, you will consider and adjust your writing according to the goal of the message and the needs and expectations of the audience. You will also select appropriate writing styles for discipline- or industry-specific situations. There will be times you will write pieces for many different genres, including more formal genres for college or work. Becoming familiar with a variety of genres will help you create a writing toolkit to leverage throughout your career path and personal life. This week you will demonstrate your ability to adapt to a particular rhetorical situation and writing context by writing a piece that achieves a specific goal. For this assessment, you will write a piece in a specific genre to demonstrate how effectively you can compose an original written work that employs appropriate rhetorical situation, genre, and organization. Assessment Deliverable Complete Part 1 and Part 2. Part 1:
Written Piece Choose 1 topic you are interested in that can be written about in 1 of the following genres: Professional email advocating for a change at work How-to essay describing a process for home or work Persuasive essay on a debatable issue Compose a maximum 525-word written piece that includes the necessary components for your chosen genre. Include the following in your written piece:
The genre’s audience Purpose and context Conventions and trends (e.g., citations, word choice, and writing to the correct official) for your chosen genre Correct formatting and structure for your chosen genre Refer to the resources in the Assessment Support section for help with this assessment.
Part 2: Reflection Insert a page break after your piece of writing. To create a page break in Word, go to the Layout menu and click on Breaks.
Write a reflection addressing the following questions in at least 1 sentence each:
What genre did you choose for your written piece? In what ways does your writing demonstrate this genre? All writing has a purpose that is unique to the situation. What did you hope to accomplish with your written piece?
What research did you conduct for this assignment? Cite your sources and format your assignment according to APA guidelines. Check out the Assessment Support section for a link to the Center for Writing Excellence, where you can find the Reference & Citation Generator.