Weekly Homework 9

Please find a negative news message from an organization during the COVID-19 pandemic and post it to the discussion. The negative news may be about the temporary closing of a store, funding cut, pay cut, layoff, or limited supply of service or goods. More importantly, you will analyze this negative news message from the following perspective:

1. Does the message use a direct or indirect organization pattern? To what extent the selection of the particular organizational pattern is appropriate, and why?

2. To what extent the message buffers the negative tone through its language use?

3. How effective are the buffer and the closing?

Your analysis should contain at least 150 words (exclude the negative message itself)