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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 Wrien Communication Excellence”
section of chapter 9.
2. Inform the class that for this individual writing assignment, they can choose to compose
a cover leer that would accompany a résumé, a business leer to announce business
news to clients or vendors, or a downsizing leer. These types of leers 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 Wrien 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 leers, 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 Wrien Communication Excellence”
section of chapter 9.
2. Inform the class that for this individual writing assignment they can choose to compose
a strategic planning leer/document or an external communication leer dealing with
