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This document contains an assignment for a course on professional writing and communication. It includes two questions - the first asks the student to write a letter of inquiry as a business owner and a memorandum informing employees of changed opening hours. The second question involves analyzing a bar graph about customer numbers at a company from 2014-2017 and creating a table showing monthly income figures for different services at a printing press, along with explanatory paragraphs for the graph and table.

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University of Fort Hare: Alice Campus

This document contains an assignment for a course on professional writing and communication. It includes two questions - the first asks the student to write a letter of inquiry as a business owner and a memorandum informing employees of changed opening hours. The second question involves analyzing a bar graph about customer numbers at a company from 2014-2017 and creating a table showing monthly income figures for different services at a printing press, along with explanatory paragraphs for the graph and table.

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UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE

ALICE CAMPUS

CMP322
2021

ASSIGNMENT
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Instruction

Answer all questions

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Question 1: Written communication
1. Use the professional writing process to produce a letter of enquiry. You are the
owner of your own business and must write a letter of enquiry to a security
company to enquire about how they could help your company.

2. Create a memorandum. You have decided to change the opening hours of your
company and need to inform your employees of the changes.

Question 2: Tables & Graphs

1. Look at the bar graph below and answer the questions that follow:

Number of customers served at ABC Technologies (2014-


2017)
300

250

200

150

100

50

0
2014 2015 2016 2017

20-30 30-40 40-50 50+

1a. Approximately how many clients were aged 20-30 throughout the four years?

1b. Write a paragraph explaining this table, which would appear below it in a report.

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2a. Create a closed, formal table using the following information: 5

Income at JORDAN Printing Press

Photocopying: January-R5500; February-R6500; March-R7500; April-R8800; May-R9700; June-R4300

Printing: January-R12500; February-R16500; March-R17500; April-R18800; May-R6700; June-R3000

Laminating: January-R8500; February-R5500; March-R14500; April-R2800; May-R6300; June-R2400

Binding: January-R22200; February-R34500; March-R46500; April-R32200; May-R54400; June-R2210

2b. When a table or graph is presented in a report, it should be followed by a short paragraph
which explains the important pieces of information. Create a paragraph describing the table
you have just created.

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