TO: FROM: DATE: SUBJECT: COMM 2293 Students COMM 2293 Instructors September 13, 2021 Assignment 1 Instructions For Assignment 1, write a direct strategy email. Who you are: the office coordinator at Clay & Clover (refer to case scenario) Who your reader is: Linden Oakley, sales manager at Goodwood Plastic ([email protected]) Background: Several clients who are interested in hiring Clay & Clover to install low maintenance fencing have expressed concerns about chemicals from treated wood leaching into the soil. Your supervisor, Sayed Abir, would like to use plastic lumber from a local manufacturer, but needs more information about it. He has asked you to contact Mr. Oakley to find out if Goodwood Plastic is suitable for your upcoming fencing projects. Your task: 1. Draft a direct strategy email which includes • relevant information about your company and why it’s interested in Goodwood Plastic (include only information that will help your reader answer your questions). • a list of four or five specific and relevant questions you want to ask your reader about Goodwood Plastic’s lumber. 2. Revise your draft(s) to ensure your message follows the instructions given here, in your COMM class, and on the checklist. 3. Save and submit your assignment to Turnitin as a Word file by 11:59 p.m. on the due date listed in your course schedule. Do not copy content from any sources you might consult, including this handout, and other COMM 2293 instructional materials; use your own words. Do not work with other students on this assignment. Unauthorized collaboration and/or plagiarism will be reported to the Academic Integrity Officer. Evaluate your own assignment using this checklist. Message follows the three-part direct strategy ? begins with a direct opening that states the requested action (purpose) ? provides relevant background details and asks specific questions in the body ? includes a complete, forward-looking close with a timeline and reason ? uses informative subject line that reflects the main point expressed in the opening Message gives clear, complete information to the reader ? provides necessary contextual information so the reader understands your questions ? asks open questions that elicit informative answers (not closed yes/no questions) ? maintains goodwill throughout message Message uses a professional business style and presentation ? does not copy exact wording/phrasing from the case scenario or assignment memo ? follows all the grammar and business style points assigned so far ? uses correct email format ? uses full block format, with 2.5 cm margins on all sides, single spaced, readable 11- or 12-point font, and a left-aligned margin Purchase answer to see full attachment Tags: private organization Efficiency of Goodwood Plastic environmental based organization Clay and clover wood lumber fences User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following our company’shonor code & terms of service.

MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics

Guidelines for referring to the works of others in your text using MLA style are covered throughout the MLA Handbook and in chapter 7 of the MLA Style Manual. Both books provide extensive examples, so it’s a good idea to consult them if you want to become even more familiar with MLA guidelines or if you have a particular reference question.

BASIC IN-TEXT CITATION RULES

In MLA Style, referring to the works of others in your text is done using parenthetical citations. This method involves providing relevant source information in parentheses whenever a sentence uses a quotation or paraphrase. Usually, the simplest way to do this is to put all of the source information in parentheses at the end of the sentence (i.e., just before the period). However, as the examples below will illustrate, there are situations where it makes sense to put the parenthetical elsewhere in the sentence, or even to leave information out.

General Guidelines

• The source information required in a parenthetical citation depends (1) upon the source medium (e.g. print, web, DVD) and (2) upon the source’s entry on the Works Cited page.
• Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry on the Works Cited page.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS: AUTHOR-PAGE STYLE

MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author’s last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author’s name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example:

Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (263).

Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263).

Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth, they would find the following information:

Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. Oxford UP, 1967.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS FOR PRINT SOURCES WITH KNOWN AUTHOR

For print sources like books, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and newspapers, provide a signal word or phrase (usually the author’s last name) and a page number. If you provide the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need to include it in the parenthetical citation.

Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as “symbol-using animals” (3).

Human beings have been described as “symbol-using animals” (Burke 3).

These examples must correspond to an entry that begins with Burke, which will be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of an entry on the Works Cited page:

Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. University of California Press, 1966.