COM140 Week 6 Assignment:
Applying
Style Guidelines
Read
Closely!
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Resources: Appendix D, Appendix E, and Axia College’s Writing Style
Handbook
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Due Date: Day 7 [Individual] forum
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Read the memo in Appendix D.
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Use the information in Chapter 1 in Axia College’s Writing Style
Handbook to apply Axia style guidelines and reformat the academic paper in
Appendix E.
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Address the following points: What are the main formatting differences
between the memo and the academic paper? In what ways do audience, purpose,
tone, and structure affect the formatting of the memo and the paper?
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Write a response in the form of a memo from Joe Gilmore, Training
Department Manager, to Christine Lancaster, Training Supervisor, regarding her
idea for the next training series. The memo must not exceed 300 words.
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Post the assignment components as attachments: (1) the reformatted paper
in Appendix E, (2) the answers to the questions about formatting, and (3) the
memo.
Summation
1. Go to Appendix E
in the syllabus and reformat the paper there using the Axia style
guidelines in the Writing Style Handbook. Attach this to a post.
2. Answer the questions:
a. What are the
formatting differences between the memo and an academic paper?
b. In what ways do
audience, purpose, tone, and structure affect the format of a memo?
c. In what ways do
audience, purpose, tone, and structure affect the format of an academic paper?
d. Attach these
questions to a post.
3. Write a memo from
Joe Gilmore to Christine Lancaster about her idea for next training series.
Attach this to a post.
4. Use the Rubric as a
checklist to make certain the assignment is complete.
5. There are 3 total
posts: re-formatted paper, questions, and memo.
The
biggest difference between a memo and an academic paper would be in the
formatting. Memos should be single
paced, left justified meaning no indentions, and subject is included at top of
paper with the sender and recipient.
Academic papers are double spaced, paragraphs are indented, includes
references or citations, and a title page with author’s name.
When it
comes to the format of your paper, you need to consider audience, purpose, tone
and structure. Memos are generally
business communications aimed at coworkers or bosses. The purpose can be anything from a new idea
to update of the progress on a current project.
Your tone can be either business or interpersonal. Academic papers are scholarly representations
of researched subjects created for professors to show a student’s understanding
of the intended subject.
To:
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Christine
Lancaster, Training Supervisor
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From:
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Joe
Gilmore, Training Department Manager
JG
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Date:
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Dec
22, 2006
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Re:
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Idea
for Next Training Series
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Your
idea to incorporate an emotional intelligence training series to our training
of employees is a great one. Ms Smith
wrote an intriguing paper, although there is no statistical information to see.
Put together some statistics from
companies who have already begun using emotional training to train their
employees and we will meet next week to discuss your ideas on a complete
training series on emotional intelligence.
Thank
you for your continued hard work. I look
forward to meeting with you.
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