Weight: 20% of final grade
Approximate time: 2 hours

As a 3-credit course, this activity represents 2 hours of work out of an average of 7-9 hours per week required for the course.

After completing this activity, you will have successfully finished the equivalent of 4 out of 6 hours scheduled for Week 2. 

Submit

Submit a copy of 2 emails to this Canvas as a single Word .docx file. 

*To submit your work for grading, select the Start Assignment button at the top of this page.

Description

In this assignment, you will draft 2 different emails to people you will be working with this semester during your internship. You should choose 2 different audiences for your 2 emails, which could include: your client, a specific teammate or fellow intern, your immediate supervisor, or an ATLAS Intern Coordinator if you are in the ATLAS Internship program.

Each email should:

Introduce yourself to your reader, containing information valuable to their needs at the beginning of an internship experience.
Include some outcome or call-to-action that you would like to receive in response to your email introducing yourself.
Content that would assist and/or encourage your reader granting your desired response.

These emails should draw on the content you’ve developed earlier in this module such as your internship goals, skills, and experience. However, each email should be different.  

What is your relative authority or role in relation to each reader? This will impact content and tone.
What content would be relevant, valuable, or motivating to your 2 different readers?
Even if some of the content is relevant to both readers, how would you present the same information differently? 
What kind of relationship do you want to create with each reader? Your style and tone should change in response. 

All emails should include basic email components–salutation, intro with a purpose statement (you get+because) and context, at least 1 body paragraph with relevant content, closing, and signature.

Each email will create a basis for your relationship with the reader, so consider not only what content would be of interest to them, but also how you want to adjust the style of your emails to the kind of impression you want to give to that reader. 

Connections

Leading up to this assignment, you will have completed several low-stakes activities meant to help you brainstorm and develop content for this assignment. Activities useful for helping you to complete this assignment includes: 

1.1 Internship goals and skill inventory 
1.2 Emails planning

Learning Objectives

Define personal skills, needs, and ambitions to generate developmental goals and pursue targeted employment opportunities.   

Compose effective written and/or multimodal communication materials adapted to particular technical and non-technical audiences.

Adapt communication materials and strategies to achieve specific outcomes responsive to particular contexts and appropriate conventions.