Writing Assignment 1: Brief Persuasive Message (due Saturday midnight - 10/26/2013) For your first assignment, you are writing a brief persuasive memo (not a letter, since you are writing an internal communication), seeking to convince someone to make an improvement you are proposing. Think about your own job or a past job you have held where you see an opportunity to improve something, a process, an efficiency, the way something is handled, whatever you can come up with. Though we are examining persuasion more thoroughly later in the term, you may want to look over chapter 9. If you are concerned about privacy, feel free to change any names of people or organizations in your memo. As noted in Business Communication Essentials, most memos are one side of a page with single spacing, and this should also be the case for this assignment. Word count is irrelevant: you decide what is long enough but not too long to provide sufficient information and persuade your audience fully. I need this on coming Saturday. Please let me know if you need additional details.