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Writing Workshop (Example 1)

Spaghetti Dinner 5500 University Pkwy, San Bernardino, CA 92407

To: Spaghetti Dinner Employees From:  Desiree Almanza Date: October 10th 2016 Subject: Opportunity to earn more money

Hello everyone! As most of you may know, there was a sign posted last week with embarrassing grammatical errors. Here at Spaghetti Dinner we pride ourselves with excellence. We are ranked in the top 10 by professional food critics here in Southern California. That means we need excellence all round not just in food and customer service but also intellectually. Our all-around business needs to be at its best. Therefore to prevent future mistakes and ensure this situation doesn't occur again, I am inviting all employees to attend a Fundamental Writing Workshop.

Although the workshop is not required I strongly recommend and encourage all staff to attend. The classes will be a six week fundamental writing skills workshop held here in our facility every Monday and Thursday from 6-8pm starting November 7. If you decide to do this, you only have to attend one class per week in order to work with some of your shifts and daily schedules. I hired a local business communication instructor Dr. Reade with experience in teaching writing skills at Treleaven Community College, she will be facilitating the session. In the six weeks you will learn the fundamentals of writing such as grammar, writing structure, how to communicate to the readers and more.

I am aware that life catches up to us, we are all very busy people and all in need of a little extra money. So for some encouragement to attend the courses, all classes will be free. In fact all sessions will be paid on the clock, so yes you will get paid to attend. Since the same class is being held twice a week, you can only get paid for one session. This is a way to get educated and apply something new while getting paid.

Not only will you get paid to attend these courses but at the end of the workshop if attend five out of 6 classes you will receive a certification of completion. If you receive a certification you will automatically get a raise of 25 cents per hour. In addition you will get 2 paid vacation days (or 16 hours) this month. Also for those who are trying to build their resume, this certification of completion is a great add on. This will show your future employer (or me for future promotion and job position) that your writing is at a professional level.

I encourage all employees to try it out and attend as much as you can. This will not only help you financially but also intellectually. Both will be better in the long run. Not to mention those who receive a certificate will be prioritized on the work schedule. Remember there is always room for improvement. So why not start now. Please get back to me ASAP if you are interested in this opportunity.

Writing Workshop (Example 2)

Corner Café

To: All Corner Café Employees From: Drew Allensworth Date: February 2, 2017 Subject: Opportunity to Increase Pay and Keep Corner Café Away From the 'Coroner'

Good morning Corner Café staff. By now, all of you have heard about our signage snafu. We received quite a few emails, some from amused customers, but one in particular caught my attention. The Health Department saw no humor in our mistakes. While the inglorious grammar was embarrassing, misspelled menu items such as "Coroner Café's Signature Steamed Muscles" prompted an inspector to visit us yesterday. As you know, if we fall out of favor with the Health Department, the letter rating of the cafe could be reduced. If that occurs, fewer customers will dine here and we will struggle to stay in business.

However, writing is a skill that all of us can improve. Starting next week, the Café will be hosting on OPTIONAL six-week writing course open to every employee. Although the classes are not mandatory, the skills are so valuable that any employee who attends all six weeks will receive a 25¢ per hour pay raise!

The classes will be taught here by Dr. Connie Jugate, a professor of English at Treleaven Community College.

Dr. Jugate is a former high school drop-out who waited tables throughout her college journey. She knows exactly what we need and the types of backgrounds we come from. Every class is tailored just for us.

Each week's 90-minute class has a single topic, and will be offered twice to accommodate our different schedules. We close early on Mondays and open late on Fridays. You have a choice to attend one of the two weekly sessions. The first will be on Monday evenings at 5:30pm, after the Café closes. The other is Friday mornings at 8:30am, before the Café opens for lunch. Class time is paid, set at the overtime rate, and only one class per week (for six weeks) is needed to qualify for the pay increase. We'll fire-up the coffee makers and I contacted our neighbors at Tito's Big Texas Tacos, Pho Star Bowl #13, Pine Street Bakery, and The Codfather to provide free breakfast and dinner, depending on the session.

Maybe you don't believe these workshops will help, you can "right" just fine, or that you will always struggle because English is not your first language. Consider this: others will judge you, and the Café, by your writing. These classes will be a safe, supportive environment for you to learn and grow new writing skills. Getting what you want (or need) depends on expressing yourself clearly and effectively. Good writing is the key. Especially if English is not your first language, Dr. Jugate knows how to help you show your talents to an English-reading audience. There are no expectations for skills coming into the course. However, you can expect to take new skills from it.

I will be at every session, learning with all of you. Sign up for the six workshops and together we can improve both our writing and the public image of the Café. The sign-up sheet is located in the break room next to the lockers. Your participation will keep Corner Café away from the morgue!

Writing Workshop (Example 3)

To: All Employees of HotDam Soup! From: Jacqueline McConnaughy Date: January 29, 2014 Subject: Free Writing Skills Workshop

As many of you are aware, we recently had a small incident with one of the signs in our restaurant window. Never having eaten spilt pea soup or carrot-brain muffins, many of our customers were understandably curious and we received many questions and comments about these unusual offerings. In an effort to ensure that future customers only order real food, we are excited to offer all employees the opportunity to partake in a six-week fundamental writing skills workshop.

Writing skills are highly valued by employers, and they are something that we look for in management here at HotDam Soup! Taking advantage of this FREE workshop would be a great way to build your resume, and develop the critical communication skills that will get you noticed. To teach the workshop, we have hired local legend Dr. Will Writewell, who is currently a professor over at Treleaven Community College. Not only is Dr. Writewell known for his book, The Writewell Way: Write Well, Do Well, but he also has a reputation for being an effusive and engaging teacher who is able to bring out the best in his students. Don't lose out on personalized attention and guidance from this amazing teacher and writer who will help bring your writing skills to a whole new level!

To make it a little more interesting, employees will also receive free lunch and a raffle ticket for every workshop class that they attend. Thus, the more classes you attend, the more chances you have to win. Plus, all employees who complete at least half of the workshop classes will have the chance to make a suggestion and then vote on the big raffle prize. So sign up and try to win that Swedish massage or deep fryer you've always wanted!

Sign up sheets will be available on the kitchen bulletin board starting next week. Classes will start the week after that. There will be one class offered per week, but it will be offered on both Wednesday and Thursday to accommodate employees' differing schedules. So, if you show up on Wednesday, February 12th, you can skip Thursday, February 13th, and vice versa. Each class will last for 1.5 hours, from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm, so as to take advantage of the lull between lunch and dinner.

We don't want to be known as a restaurant with poor 'pubic' relations (if you catch my meaning), so sign up for the workshop, develop your skills, and possibly win a prize! We hope to see you all there!

Writing Workshop (Example 4)

The Friendly Veggie

To: The Friendly Veggie Employees From: Malik Almatroodi Date: October 18, 2016 Subject: Professional Development Courses

Greetings TFV staff! Sales are up, costs are down, and apparently we have ''free wife" for all customers. I am sure we all simultaneously cringed when a picture of our lovely cafe sign went viral on Instagram last Tuesday because of the alphabetic "oops" of one of the well-meaning members of our team that stood in place of our announcement of free wifi, but we need to look at this as an opportunity for improvement. I know that this mistake is not indicative of the literary skills of the TFV team, but it does remind us all that we are just as vulnerable to making the same mistake if we do not work on our written communication skills. We all need to work on being conscious communicators, as well as individuals who can send a message in a grabbing way to bring more customers in, so it is time for some good old professional development.

I know that you are all busy university students, and so even getting to your shift on time is a dutiful labor of maturity, but part of your job here at TFV is communicating with customers so any weakness there requires attention. I know that all of you possess the capability to become effective writers, and so you will get a chance to work on your current level of writing at the English lessons that will be mandatory events for the following six weeks. Professor Litmus from Pathway University will come to our store every Tuesday and Thursday after closing shift to provide us with written communication classes, and he will go over everything from spelling to grammar and the punctuation that goes between it all. The goal is that by the end of these classes you will be conscious writers with a flare for the imaginative in the way you present our daily specials, but not in the way you choose to spell common words. I am sure that we will all benefit from these classes, and so I will make sure to be attendance at each and every class as well to both show my support and acquire some new tips on writing skills as well.

Now, you all know me to be a very fun loving and supportive boss, so you can rest assured that your time in these classes will be paid as hours worked at TFV, and I will make sure you are fed prior to the start of every class. However, my fun loving self is still going to be strict on the matter that all employees have to attend this six-week course if they want to remain employed at TFV. I can laugh off one grammar "oops" gone viral, but on the second one I will take more stringent matters into consideration for the offender. Staff members that attend all classes without a single absence will also receive a 50 cent raise an hour starting in January, and we will have a Communication Class survival party upon the close of the six weeks to keep everyone motivated to stick with it until the end.

I know that this will be a bit of an added strain to some of your schedules for the upcoming month and a half, but I thank you all for showing your dedication to TFV by keeping good attendance and participating in these classes that Professor Litmus is so generously providing us free of charge. I will be at every class, and I will be taking notes alongside all of you, so think of this as a professional development course for the TFV family that will make all of us better communicators.

The classes start on Tuesday, October 25th, and so I expect to see all of you there with spiral bound notebooks, sharpened pencils, and an attitude that is just giddy with excitement for all you will learn. See you then!