English1.Assignment 1.1: Procedural Message - Draft VersionWrite a procedural email to employees reminding them of key components of a company policy on acceptable use of email and text messaging. The policy should address security issues, privacy issues, and company monitoring of messages. Consider policies on appropriate message content, the consequences for using company equipment to send harassing messages, and a policy on the use of company system for sending personal email messages.
The message should take the “form” of an email; however, you will submit your assignment to the online course shell.
For the procedural message, you must:
Follow proper format.
- Use a descriptive title or heading
- Use bullets as needed to emphasize key points
- Include appropriate greeting and salutation
Have the following content:
- Introduce the main idea of the message in a concise, informative manner.
- Itemize and explain three (3) to five (5) key points with details.
- Provide information about where and to whom questions should be directed.
- Use effective language and English usage.
- Begin statements with action verbs
- Use correct grammar, punctuation, mechanics
- Avoid spelling errors
Your assignment must:
- Be typed, single spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12). Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
2"Credibility and Cultivating a “You Attitude”Please respond to the following:
- Assume you are the Vice President of Marketing for a cosmetic firm that has stopped making products that use animal testing and you want to communicate this to your customers. Explain how the company’s credibility and the “you attitude” would play a part in your planned communication to your customers.
3"Effective vs. Ineffective Language"Please respond to the following:
- Identify an example of an epithet, a euphemism, and jargon in a newspaper or magazine article. Explain whether this example of word usage is effective or ineffective in conveying meaning. If ineffective, suggest a better choice of language.
- Describe an experience that called for code switching and give at least two specific examples of what you had to change about your language use or dialect from one situation to another.
4.Assignment 1.2: Procedural Message - Revised VersionWrite a procedural email to employees reminding them of key components of a company policy on acceptable use of email and text messaging. The policy should address security issues, privacy issues, and company monitoring of messages. Consider policies on appropriate message content, the consequences for using company equipment to send harassing messages, and a policy on the use of company system for sending personal email messages.
The message should take the “form” of an email; however, you will submit your assignment to the online course shell.
Revise the procedural message to ensure you:
Follow proper format.
- Use a descriptive title or heading
- Use bullets as needed to emphasize key points
- Include appropriate greeting and salutation
Have the following content:
- Introduce the main idea of the message in a concise, informative manner.
- Itemize and explain three (3) to five (5) key points with details.
- Provide information about where and to whom questions should be directed.
- Use effective language and English usage.
- Begin statements with action verbs
- Use correct grammar, punctuation, mechanics
- Avoid spelling errors
Your assignment must:
- Be typed, single spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12). Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Submitting your assignment:
Religion
Discussion 1: “Understanding Religions.” Please respond to the following:
- Explain why it is important for you personally to understand the beliefs of other religious groups.
- Explain at least one (1) way that not understanding other religions can cause conflicts, whether between co-workers, neighbors, or even countries.
- Imagine you are an outsider to a religion with which you are actually familiar –
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- Identify one (1) practice of this religion and explain how it might look from the perspective of an outsider unfamiliar with this religious practice.
- Describe any conclusions that an outsider might draw about what’ s going on during this practice and why the followers would do it.
Discussion 2: “Traditions.” Please respond to the following:
- Explain the advantages or disadvantages that oral traditions of indigenous religions (such as the tale “Descendants of the Eagle,” originally an oral tradition) may have over written scriptures of other religions.
- Describe at least one (1) aspect of indigenous religions that exists in a similar form in a traditional, mainstream religion.
Discussion 3: “Plain Jain.” Please respond to the following:
- Imagine that a group of Jains have decided to send missionaries to the United States.
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- Explain what message you think they would offer to Americans about their [American's] lifestyles.
- Describe how you think Americans might respond.
- Explain how the teaching ofahimsainfluences the daily lives of lay Jains.
- Make a list of your daily activities from the time you rise in the morning until lunchtime. Review your list from the perspective of a person who is newly converted to Jainism.
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- Identify the activities a convert to Jainism would have to alter or abandon and explain why.