Chapter $7$ Writing Assignment At

CHAPTER $7$ WRITING ASSIGNMENT

Short Workplace Messages and Digital Media

Activity $5\mathrm{.}13.$ Document for Analysis: Finding Faults in a Poor Message

YOUR TASK $($Document for Analysis: Weak Request Response Requires Your Revision$)$ Blog writer Brian Drummond needs examples and information for a blog he plans to publish on the Online Voices platform. He writes to Nadya DeAlba, office manager at a high$-$tech firm, requesting information and examples. He met Ms$.$ DeAlba at a conference and feels that she could be a willing source of information for his blog. Ms$.$ DeAlba's advice is valuable, but her message is poorly organized, contains writing and grammar errors, and is hard to read. Analyze the poorly written message $($shown on page $2)$ from Nadya DeAlba. Identify $($by highlighting in yellow$-$I did the first one for you as a sample$)$ its weaknesses including sentence fragments, wordiness, grammar faults, misspellings, and other writing problems you have studied. Then on the page $3$ of this assignment, retype the body of the message following proper guidelines for formatting an Interoffice Memo $($as shown on page $210$ of the text and also in the Resource Sample in Blackboard for this week$).$ Save this document showing your yellow highlighting and your revised Interoffice Memo. Send your saved document to me as an