Practice What You’ve Learned

Exercise 1

Review Anmol’s email to his instructor in the Questions for Reflection section of this chapter. Then read the instructions below:

After you have analyzed the context, audience, purpose and channel, write an effective message to Anmol’s instructor.

Here’s a recap of the message

Exercise 2

Read the scenarios below and choose the best channel (or medium). For example, would you text, email, or call the person?

Exercise 3

Read the following scenario. Then answer the following questions about purpose and audience:

Scenario: You are working on a team project at Langara college, but one of your teammates hasn’t shown up to the last 2 meetings. You are getting worried that you won’t meet the report deadline that is coming up. You’ve tried to reach out to your teammate, but they have ignored your emails and text messages. At the beginning of the term, your instructor gave you a list of guidelines for working in a team. Your instructor told you that you could only email them if the problem was really big. Now you want to write an email to your instructor explaining the problem because you don’t want to fail the assignment.