Imagine you work for a large company and you are getting ready to send a persuasive email to your department manager. The department sponsors a charity fundraiser event every year. All the employees are asked to participate in the event, and the company matches the donations. 

For the past 5 years, the company has chosen the ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) Foundation because the owner lost his father to ALS.This year, however, one of your colleagues lost a brother to cancer. You would like the department to change the charity this year and donate to the American Cancer Societyinstead of the ALS foundation for one year in honor of your colleague's brother and any other employees who have lost someone to cancer. You are certain the department manager has no knowledge about your colleague's loss.

Often, a persuasive analysis is a straightforward presentation of the facts. In this situation, however, you and your colleague have a personal interest and will need to persuade the manager to accept your solution. Consider what types of facts would help build your case and how best to present them. Also, consider the ethical issues around this discussion.

Task

You do not have to write the actual persuasive message, instead, imagine you were actually writing it, and analyze these questions:

• What are the ethical dilemmas facing you in this situation?
• What information (and how much) would you want to share in your message to your department manager?
• Which organizational pattern would you use?
• What persuasive elements (ethos, pathos, logos) would you use?

Remember to use

• complete sentences.
• appropriate workplace grammar and punctuation.
• an appropriate tone.
• a beginning, middle, and end.
• only information that relates to the subject.
• your proofreading skills to make the message error-free.

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