Unit I – Email Assignment
Gentlemen/Ladies,
Some recent concerns have been brought to my attention. As the Human Resources Director, I would like to address these areas of concern in order to provide greater clarity. The areas that I’ll discuss will give all employees a quick overview on key ethical issues that could potentially create friction points in the future. I’ll discuss each of these areas briefly.
1. Sexual Harassment - Sexual harassment is a form of gender discrimination. Sexual harassment includes, but is not limited to, unwanted sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and verbal or physical conduct that is sexual nature. The company has a zero-tolerance policy on sexual harassment.
2. Discrimination – This company does not condone discriminating against any person or groups of persons on the basis of …show more content…
Audience – The audience are all the employees of the company who each possess different skill sets within the company.
Criteria for evaluation – The areas discussed have concise descriptions with enough detail to convey a specific message.
Graphic elements – References are mentioned to outline present policy as well as additional sources of information.
The key differences between technical writing and academic writing are in the knowledge base of the writer regarding the subject and the end state of the information given. Using the characteristics of writing, these differences are noted between academic writing and technical writing (Pfeiffer & Adkins, 2012, p 2-3):
Purpose – Technical writing is geared towards action and academic writing is informative in nature.
Knowledge of the topic – In technical writing, the writer has greater knowledge of the topic than in academic writing.
Audience – Technical writing caters to a larger and more diverse audience and academic writing is for the instructor giving the