Persuasive memo - Coursework Example

Armand Assante, Advanced Education Department Jonathan Knowles, Cignal Email Client Support Team Leader CC: Marlon Egbert, Cignal Department SupervisorDATE: June 23, 2014SUBJECT: Request for Educational Scholarship It has come to my attention that the Hewlett-Packard Community University is sponsoring as one year Business Writing Course. As the Cignal Email Client Support Team Leader, I am quite familiar with the benefits that such course offers people who are in a line of work that requires them to write numerous communication letters to people of various backgrounds and product needs.

Hence my interest in requesting our Advanced Education Department to support my desire in enrolling in the said course through company sponsorship. The aforementioned community course was specifically created to cater the needs of the busy individuals such as myself as the courses are designed for weekend class attendance and internet correspondence between the professor and the student during weekdays. As such, I do not expect any scheduling conflicts to arise between my work schedule and class hours.

As Post Baccalaureate Certificate Program, the Business Writing class has very specific objectives which I believe fall directly under the needs of our company. These objectives include: Learning to write quicklyOvercoming procrastination and writers blockCommunicating directly and effectively with the readerIdentifying and fulfilling the purposes of different business documentsApplying genre conventions to business documentsCreating documents that follow the edicts of English writingWriting with energy, confidence, and enjoyment.

The class will be conducted in 2 forms: online during weekdays and in classroom on weekends. Each class offers a different learning opportunity for me as a student because the online class offers: ReadingsVideosClass DiscussionsSharing time with other studentsWhile the classroom set up gives me the opportunity to: Participate in class discussionsRead relevant case studiesDo assignments Upon my completion of the course, I plan to offer myself up to the company as a trainer for incoming agents who will be answering the email inquiries of the Cignal clients.

I will be able to transfer my knowledge of proper writing habits and presenting oneself through the written word which is a skill that most of our agents still need to perfect. The company will be able to save thousands of dollars in hiring outside trainers once I complete the course. We will be able to create our own in house training system using the knowledge I will be gaining and therefore, offer the company continuous savings in terms of agent training. I have been a part of Cignal for the past 5 years and I have always taken every opportunity to help advance the business of our company.

It is my greatest hope that you will find me worthy of financial support in the amount of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) so that I can continue to further hone my skills for the benefit of our company. I am looking forward to hearing from you about this matter of the utmost importance and urgency to the future of our company.