Tuesday, February 28, 2012 Thank you and Appreciation Messages

Thank you Messages 
1. Expresses gratefulness for a situation
 2. Uses the deductive approach 

3. When to send a thank you note= a gift is received, if invited as a guest, an interview conducted….  

4. For social situations the message can be handwritten or sent as an email message.

Appreciation Messages

1. Recognizes, rewards and encourages the receiver for a situation occurred.

2. Uses the deductive approach

3. In some occassions, the appreciation message is sent not only to the receiver buy his/ her supervisor

4. The appreciation message should be sent as soon as possible after the situation occurs, do not use exageration to express your appreciation, specify why this is appreciation message is written.

Assignment: 

Mr. Gabriel Suarez visited the INCO 3006 and gave a workshop on how to write business letters.  He offered this workshop free of costs, he provided students with a CD that has templates on the different types of letters and even gave each student an electronic dictionary to use in the course.

Mr. Gabriel Suarez visited the INCO 3006 and gave a workshop on how to write business letters.  He offered this workshop free of costs, he provided students with a CD that has templates on the different types of letters and even gave each student an electronic dictionary to use in the course.

Mr. Gabriel Suarez visited the INCO 3006 and gave a workshop on how to write business letters.  He offered this workshop free of costs, he provided students with a CD that has templates on the different types of letters and even gave each student an electronic dictionary to use in the course.

Write an appreciation message.  Remember to include why do you appreciate Mr. Suarez’s visit to your course. 

Send this message to my email IN THE BODY of the email.  Remember my email is carmen.torres1@upr.edu

Thursday, February 23, 2011

Dear INGL 3006 students:

Read "Making Voice Mail Messages Work for You".  It is on page 195 of 15th edition and page 206 of the 16th edition.  Do the application exercise at the end of this section to hand-in on Tuesday.

I will post the other activity tomorrow.  Take care!

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Dear INCO 3006 students:

After completing reading the chapter, answer the exercises of the chapter review to hand-in on Tuesday.  Take care!

Assignment for Thursday, February 9, 2012 Class

Dear INCO 3006 students:

Read the section of Thank you and Appreciation Messages (pages 185- 186 of 15th edition).  After reading this section you will write a short thank you message to hand-in.  Here is the situation to use for this writing activity:

Erick Bermudez won a trip to India due to this outstanding academic performance as an International Business student at UPRH.  After receiving the notification of having obtained this prize, he writes a thank you message to Dr. Gabriel Santiago from Travel Scholarships for Business Students.

Remember to post in comments that you read this message.  Also read the post that has the additional evaluation criteria of the course that explains how should this assignment be handed-in on Tuesday.

You are responsible of reading the complete chapter by Tuesday.

Any questions, let me know

Additional Evaluation Criteria

Additional Evaluation Criteria beyond the Course Outline

Dear Students:

            In addition to the evaluation criteria specified in the course outline, there are other aspects that will be taken into consideration when the final grade is calculated:

1.    Attendance is vital academic success.  Students that obtain at the end of the course 6 or more unjustified absences, 3 unjustified absences (Tues & Thurs.), will have their grade lowered.

2.    If a student is late 3 times without any justification= 1 unjustified absence.

3.    Homework assignments MUST be handed-in at the beginning of the class in LOOSE LEAF paper and written in INK blue or black.

·         One homework assignment will be eliminated at the end of the course.

·         If assignment is sent by e-mail it must be received no later than the time the course is being offered.

·         Make sure to C: or BC: yourself (have evidence that you sent the assignment just in case it does not arrive to my e-mail.

4.    Quizzes are not made up.  One quiz is eliminated.

5.    If a student is absent for a test, he/ she must bring a justified excuse for not taking the test on the established date.  The student is responsible of making arrangement with the professor within TWO WEEKS after returning to class.

·         Make-up tests will be given during the office hours of the professor.  Student must make arrangements to take the test during this period.

6.    The course textbook is a requirement.  NO PHOTOCOPIES can be allowed for class.  Having your textbook will have a 20 point value of class work.  The  points will be assigned the following way:

Always had textbook	20
Forgot textbook once	18
Forgot textbook twice	14
Forgot textbook 3 times	8
Forgot textbook 4 times	4
Forgot textbook more than five times but brought it once in a while	2
Never brought textbook to class	0

Verification of textbook is done randomly.  Except if the professor announces beforehand that the textbook will not be used in the following class, the student is responsible is always bringing the textbook.

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Dear Students:

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