Direction:

• Evaluate the letter for content and tone. As the weeks activity requires you to compose an email to a supervisor, consider professional tone.
• Identify some characteristics of professional tone.
• Explain how the writer could revise and improve this message.
• And assess what questions or impressions the reader might form of the employee who wrote this email.

To: Sally Supervisor

From: Jane S.

Subject: hi

Dear Sally,

i need to work from home on Mondays so I can pick up my son from school. you let Mark leave early and it is only fair to give everone the same flexibility. Let me know if I can do that, otherwise I need to find a babysitter which is hard for my family right now.

Jane