Week 4 Discussion Questions

Please complete the following questions:

Question 1:

Visit a search engine homepage (i.e. Google.com, Yahoo.com, Ask.com, etc) and type in the name of a company or organization. Critique the first five hits using the criteria discussed near the beginning of Chapter 13 under the heading “Finding, Evaluating, and Processing Information.” Be sure to include the company/organization name that you searched and an APA citation for each of the five hits. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.

Question 2:

Your boss wants to send a brief email message welcoming employees recently transferred to your department from the company’s Hong Kong branch. These employees, all of whom are Hong Kong natives, speak English, but your boss asks you to review his message for clarity. What would you suggest your boss change in the following email message, and why? Would you consider this message to be audience centered? Why or why not? How would you redraft this message for clarity?

“I wanted to welcome you ASAP to our little family here in the States. It’s high time we shook hands in person and not just across the sea. I’m pleased as punch about getting to know you all, and I for one will do my level best to sell you on America.”