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As part of a professional development initiative for employees, your employer, Waterhouse Consulting, has paid your tuition for a business writing course $($ENL$1813$b Communications I$)$ at Algonquin College. As part of the initiative, you are required to provide an update for your supervisor, Brian Waters $($he$/$him$),$ Director of Marketing, outlining what you have learned after $10$ weeks of classes.

Mr$.$ Waters is primarily interested in how the information that you$$ve learned in the course will enhance your skills as his administrative assistant.

Here$$s a list of your typical duties:

Answering e$-$mail queries $$ domestic and international

Scheduling meetings, taking minutes, answering the phone

Updating social media platforms for the marketing department

Arranging travel and accommodations

Purchasing office equipment and supplies

In a memo, provide Mr$.$ Waters with a summary of what you$$ve learned, what you feel is most relevant to your position, and how this information will add to your skillset moving forward. Use the memo $($p$\mathrm{.}188,$ Figure $6\mathrm{.}1)$ as a format template for your document. Submit your memo as a Word document through Brightspace. $$

I$$ll be looking to see that you$$ve included references to elements from chapters $1-8$ in your document, and that you$$ve applied some of the business writing principles $($conciseness$,$ clarity, correctness $-$ for example$)$ in your document. Be sure to think about how to structure your message, and consider using vertical lists and headings to help organize your information.

Your document should not exceed two pages.