ENGLISH 221: INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS WRITING
KING'S COLLEGE
WILKES-BARRE, PA 18711
READING: Chapter 6.
This assignment and the next two will require you to write three types of business letters--special request, complaint and adjustment--so pay careful attention to the parts of Chapter 6 dealing with those types of letters.
WRITING: SPECIAL REQUEST LETTER
Send a letter to Ophelia Polonius, Chairperson
of the Department of Accounting at the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma (45635) to ask if she can tell you how many students graduating
with a degree in accounting from her university in 1995 received a job
offer while still in school. The information is for a report you are writing
for your senior seminar, Accounting 501: Current Issues in Accounting.
Your paper is due at the end of the semester. You've never met Polonius
and you know nothing about her. She is only one of thirty Chairs you are
writing to.