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Business Writing Portfolio Jordan Pappas COM/285 February 27th, 2011 Randi Plante Business Writing Portfolio Part I: Business Writing Steps. Audience: Store Manager Store Employees Customers and the public Message Format: Business Letter- Store Manager Business Memo- Store Employees Email Message- Customers and Public Part II: Portfolio Letter: 1456 Duke St. Alexandria, VA 22314 February 27, 2011 Dear Store Manager, Due to rising gas prices store policy on employee work hours will be changing. Because of this problem store hours will be amended to cut back on company expenses. To remedy this problem, stores will now be closed on Sundays. Also, work days will be shortened by 2-hours a day, the store will …show more content…

All stores will be closed on Sundays. By cutting down on days and hours this allows us to keep the great low prices that our customers are use to and it also allows for all existing locations to stay open so that you can continue to shop with us at any of your favorite locations. Your business is highly valued to us and we will continue to provide the same great service that we pride ourselves in. Implementing these changes will allow for us to provide the same great prices. We look forward to your business and are proud to offer you the best retail experience available. Best wishes, Jordan Pappas Pubic relations Manager Part III: In writing this portfolio I found it extremely difficult to put myself in the position of the Manager, Employee, and Consumer. I found it important to do so, so that I could effectively deliver the bad news in an effective manner without disappointing anyone and also showing how the cuts in hours could be beneficial to everyone affected. In most academic writing assignments you only have to think of one type of audience but in this case we were forced to think about multiple audiences. The difference with this paper compared to the writing assignments that I’ve had to do in the past is the papers that I’ve done before required research in order to gather appropriate information to put into the assignment. With this one I had to learn to put myself in the position of each

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