Assignment for Professional Business Communication - Email

Instructions: To gain practice writing formal emails, complete the following assignment. Individually, compose a professional email addressed to a potential boss at the company you want to work for one day (actually research this person’s name and job title and use this as the greeting in your email. The content of your email should be conveying good news (feel free to make up a realistic example of what that good news might be). Your email is to be a maximum of one paragraph in length and have the following parts:

· Date

· Greeting

· Body

· Salutation

· Attachment

The content of your email should also refer to something (a realistic, hypothetical event) that happened previously. Your email should also signal the reader to something you have attached. Your attachment can be minimalistic.

Rubric:

Content: 1 2 3 4 5

Professional Tone: 2 4 6 8 10

All parts included: 1 2 3 4 5