WRS 305 San Diego State University Business Letter Paper Business Letter Assignment One of the most common documents written outside of school is the busin

WRS 305 San Diego State University Business Letter Paper Business Letter Assignment One of the most common documents written outside of school is the business letter, which may be a paper document or may be sent as an email. Your assignment has three parts. The first is to identify a specific living person who is in a position to bring about a specific change that moves toward the position for which you argued in your report. They may be business owners or executives who can affect changes in their business that will affect employees or customers, politicians who can work towards enacting legislation that will affect the lives of citizens, or members of professional groups that can support change affecting the lives of professionals and the people affected by this work. The second part of the assignment is to do some research on this person. This research should gather information that is relevant to the topic on which you will be writing. You may want to consider the goals of the organization or institution for which the person works; any pertinent actions that the organization has recently taken in regards to that position or their current posture to that topic; any statements that the person has made in the past about this topic or about similar topics. If personal details about the individual seem relevant, you may want to consider them as well, but remember that this is not simply generic research on the person’s life. The third part of the assignment is the actual business letter, which will be given the separate grade indicated on the syllabus. This letter should ask the individual you have researched to take a specific action that moves toward the position for which you argued in your report. The letter should follow the format of the samples. Successful letters will create an argument that is intended specifically to persuade this particular individual, focusing on providing her or him with motivation for making these changes rather than on your own reasons for supporting this action.