Topic: Email Writing on Conflict of Schedule
Instruction:
351COM Spring 2018 Email Assignment One
Background/Scenario
In November 2017, you accepted a summer internship offer at the downtown, Los Angeles office of the “Big Four” Accounting Firm, Gold & Blue. The internship begins on June 1 and ends August 5, 2018. You are excited about this opportunity. In December 2017, your cousin, Sarah, with whom you are close, became engaged to her longtime boyfriend. Sarah asked you to be one of the four “attendants” of the wedding party (i.e. you are either one of the two bridesmaids or “groomsmen”/”ushers”), and you happily agreed without hesitation. The wedding date has been set: Saturday, July 28, 2018 at 6 p.m. at the Horton Grand Hotel in San Diego, California, with the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner on Friday, July 27 at that location.
Today, you received an email from Danielle Barati, the Gold & Blue recruiter who introduced herself to you as “Dani” at the September 2017 “Meet the Firms” event. During your in-house interview at Gold & Blue, she greeted you and showed you to a partner’s office. At a social event for Gold & Blue Summer 2018 interns last month, you heard Gold & Blue staff accountants call her “Dani B.” The email read:
Hello Summer 2018 Interns,
I hope the new year is off to a great start for you! The Gold & Blue Los Angeles team is already getting ready for the Summer 2018 Internship Program. Attached is a Summer 2018 Internship Program Special Events Schedule so that you can see what we have planned and “save the dates” too.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email me.
Sincerely,
Dani
Danielle Barati, MBA
Senior Recruiter
Gold & Blue, LLC
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The attached schedule shows that on Saturday, July 28, the Gold & Blue Summer Interns will make “team presentations” on a topic “TBA” (to be announced) at a “Partners’ Weekend Retreat” at the Gold & Blue Retreat facility in Lake Tahoe, California, traveling by airplane to Reno, Nevada and then charter bus to Lake Tahoe on Friday, July 27 and returning to Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon, July 29.
Writing Assignment
On a Word document that includes the subject line of your email, please draft an email message to Danielle Barati about the conflict in your schedule. In drafting your email message, please think of your “purpose and audience,” and consider options.
No. of Pages: 2
