Persuasive Email assignment Worth: 10% LEARNING OUTCOMES ASSESSED: 1. Plan various writing assignments related to business and office functions 2. Compose workplace documents including emails, memos, letters and reports using appropriate format, organization and tone 3. Write using correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling Developing the ability to persuade is an important element in your business life and communications. A persuasive writing situation calls for an indirect strategy in four steps: gain attention, build interest, reduce resistance, and motivate action. The persuasive scenario you are going to write for is trying to get an alumna to speak to a student club at Fanshawe College. You are asking for a favour. Make sure you review the content provided in Week 9. Scenario: As public relations director for the Office Administration Student Association on campus, you have been asked to find a keynote speaker for the first meeting of the school year. The owner of a successful local firm, TempHelp4You, is an alumno of Fanshawe College. You think not only that many students would enjoy learning about how she started her business, but also that some might like to sign up with her temporary help agency. She would need to prepare a 30-minute speech and take questions after the talk. The event will be held from noon until 1:30 p.m. on a date you choose in D1060, the Alumni Lecture Theatre. You can offer her lunch at the event and provide her with a parking permit that she can pick up at the information kiosk at the main entrance to the campus. You need to have her response by a deadline you set. Your Task: Write a persuasive email to Marion Minter and ask her to speak at your club's meeting. Send it to mminter@temphelp4you.com Type out this email with the appropriate email headings; make up any details as needed to supplement the ones in the scenario. Rubric: Email format and conventions /5 Organization for persuasion/indirect pattern (all 4 steps, in order) 10 Content and tone /10 Grammar, spelling, and mechanics /10 Total 35