Objective:

Compose a professional communication email. It needs to be readable, grammatically and mechanically sound, and appropriate in tone and form. Use your weekly folders and textbook to help you with this!

Your task:

one-page single spaced email. Open a blank page in MS Word. Add the email headings. Type up your message and format your document as an email.

Subject:

As an online learner, you have taken several online courses so far including this course, Review the learning outcomes of an online course (please let me know the course you are referring to) you have taken since March 2020. Review the syllabus, and the learning material you were provided with at the beginning of your term. Your email should provide feedback on the course from a student's perspective. What worked, what was missed, what should have been added/removed? Did you find that your learning objectives were being met? Propose at least onechange you would have liked to see in the course. Explain why that was not working and how it could be improved. Provide examples if appropriate. Provide clear specific information rather than general or vague information.

Use the following point form outline to organize your information.

Outline:

• purpose statement:
• context/background:
• Details:
• Call for action/Next step:

Suggested Process/Steps:

1) Pre-writing:Answer these questions as you plan your email:

Why am I writing? What do I want to achieve? Who is my audience? What do they need to know?What's the proper tone; formal and professional, informal, friendly? How does this feedback help them?

2) Drafting:

After the pre-writing stage, which includes identifying the audience, purpose, organization, and tone,compose your email and format including email headings.

3) Revising:

Now that you have composed your email, review if for format, tone, grammar, organization pattern, conciseness, clarity, and correctness.

Does it include a personalized salutation and a complete signature with your full name, and contact info? Do the formality levels of the salutation and complimentary close match?

4) Submitting:Attach your email (pdf or doc) through blackboard.

Your email will be scored on the following items: No longer than one page single spaced.

• Relevant subject line
• An opening that reveals the main idea immediately
• Body copy that provides more information about the reason for writing
• Closing that indicates a next action
• Accuracy of grammar, spelling, and punctuation
• Overall format (to, from, date, subject, opening salutation, closing, paragraph formatting correct)
• Complete signature