BUS207 Chapter 5 Writing an Email

You are going to write a persuasive email. The purpose of the email is to persuade someone to make
use of a particular piece of media in an educational setting.

Instructions:

 Follow the link to a short movie called ‘The Present’:

https://youtu.be/WjqiU5FgsYc
 Watch until 2 minutes and 15 seconds then pause the video.
 Make notes in the table below:

Summarize what happened up to that point in Predict what you think will happen in the rest of
the video: the video:
1.

 Finish watching the video and check your prediction.

Email: After watching the short film ‘The Present’, you decide to write to the Instructor of one of your
previous courses and recommend the movie to them to include in their course.

Before you do that, do some analysis:

 Which course do you think it should be included in? Positivity and wellbeing.
 What ideas, themes or skills could it be used to teach in that course?
 What teaching or learning activities could be connected to the video?
 What should the tone of the email be? Personal/impersonal? Formal/semi-formal/informal?

1. What should the subject line be?

2. Greeting:

3. Opening:
Introduce yourself:
Introduce your recommendation:
4. Body
Describe the video
Describe what you did with it
Explain how you think it could be used in
the course:

5. Closing: