Part One $(5$ marks$)$

Read two possible openings for your indirect persuasive message $($A and B below$)$ and identify the one best suited to your message. $($i$)$ Note your choice $($A or B$)$ and then $($ii$)$ explain, in complete sentences, WHY you believe your choice is the best option. Your explanation should note what is wrong with the option you did not select as well as what is working well in your selected option. If you feel some revision is needed for the selected option, you can mention this as well.

A$.$ Would you like to save money and make staff happier? We could save over $$30,000$ a year by switching our guest$-$speaker training model to online self$-$guided training instead, and besides, staff have said they find the speakers and long training sessions hard to schedule and difficult to absorb$.$

B$.$ Last year, our on$-$site guest$-$speaker training cost us over $$40,000$ and yielded, on average, only $70\%$ completion rates. This is an expense we can ill afford, given our tighter budgets for $2024.$