Business and Professional Communication, 3rd edition
Kelly M. Quintanilla, Shawn T. Wahl
Chapter 9: Business and Professional Writing
Chapter Activities
Activities to Illustrate Key Concepts
Activity 1: Business Le’er Writing Practice Activity
Description: This is an individual writing opportunity that will involve peer critique and class
discussion. The activity is designed to give students the opportunity to practice business and
professional writing.
Directions:
1. The focus of this individual writing assignment is to practice the standards of good
business writing shared in “The Importance of Wrien Communication Excellence”
section of chapter 9.
2. Inform the class that for this individual writing assignment, they can choose to compose
a cover leer that would accompany a résumé, a business leer to announce business
news to clients or vendors, or a downsizing leer. These types of leers are all described
Activity 2: Business Le’er Writing Practice Activity
Description: This is an individual writing opportunity that will involve peer critique and class
discussion. The activity is designed to give students the opportunity to practice business and
professional writing.
Directions:
1. The focus of this individual writing assignment is to practice the standards of good
business writing shared in “The Importance of Wrien Communication Excellence”
section of chapter 9.
2. Inform the class that for this individual writing assignment, they can choose to compose
either a memo concerning critically important new company information, new company
4. A+er allowing time to compose the leers, the instructor should divide the class into
pairs and have each pair give speci,c peer–to-peer critique based on the information
Activity 3: Business Le’er Writing Practice Activity
Description: This is an individual writing opportunity that will involve peer critique and class
discussion. The activity is designed to give students the opportunity to practice business and
professional writing.
Directions:
1. The focus of this individual writing assignment is to practice the standards of good
business writing shared in “The Importance of Wrien Communication Excellence”
section of chapter 9.
2. Inform the class that for this individual writing assignment they can choose to compose
a strategic planning leer/document or an external communication leer dealing with