Session 1: Today you will be presenting your informative speeches. If you plan on having visual aids, please make sure that you create them as a Google Slides document and share it with the email address that I gave everyone last week (check Canvas for details).
Also, tonight is the COJO Career Event Panel, October 8 from 5-7pm. Please be there and I will be taking attendance.
Session 2: If we run out of time for the Informative Speeches then today we finish up. After we will be discussing the requirements for the Professional Email writing assignment. Todays presentation will provide you with a set of criteria to help you write your professional email message.
Assignment 4: Professional Email
Due: Week 6, Session 2 (10 points)
Description
Email can serve many purposes, from friendly notes to job applications. Messages differ in formality according to the audience and desired outcome. Emails for advertising clog inboxes, preventing some emails from reaching the audience. It is a challenge is to make emails stand apart from “spam,” and to grab and hold the attention of the reader.
Requirements
Write a professional-quality email using ONE of the following prompts:
1. You are president of the Public Relations Student Society of America chapter at St. Thomas. You want to invite Anastasia Lopez, Vice President of Social Media, at PadillaCRT to speak to your group about the role of social media in public relations. Your regular weekly meetings are at 7 p.m. Thursdays, and you hope to have her visit on one of the first four Thursdays in October. You have 25 members; your adviser is Professor Xiaowen Guan.
2. You want to apply for an internship in social media with Thrivent Financial in Roseville. The job description and contact information are on the next page. You have your resume ready and will include it as an attachment.
3. You are writing a story for TommieMedia on the relationship between the university and area merchants. Specifically, three nearby restaurants and one convenience story have suffered incidents of vandalism. Two merchants have been quoted as saying that St. Thomas students are to blame. You want to meet face to face with Amy Gage, neighborhood relations manager for the university. You want to ask about:
a. the current state of relations between the university and neighborhood merchants.
b. how many complaints the university has received about student behavior from merchants specifically in recent years.
c. the nature of those complaints, specifically, how many have included vandalism.
d. steps the university has taken to work with merchants on maintaining good relations with the university.
4. Type of your email in a word document. Name it email-yourlastname.docx
5. BE SURE TO INCLUDE A SUBJECT LINE, OPENING AND CLOSING.
6. Upload it to Canvas by 11:59pm on Week 6, Session 2.