Every chapter provides an editing exercise to fine-tune your grammar and mechanics skills. These are the skills that employers frequently find lacking in employees. In this e-mail look for errors in proofreading, grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization. word use, and number form. Study the guidelines in the Grammar/Mechanics Handbook in Appendix D, including the lists of Confusing Words and Frequently Misspelled Words. YOURTASK. Edit the following by (a) inserting corrections in your textbook or on a photocopy using the proofreading marks in Appendix Cor (b) downloading the message from www.cengage.com and correcting at your computer. Hints You should make about 30 edits. Your instructor may ask you to use Track Changes in MS Word as you edit. See the Communication Workshop in Chapter 4 for more information about using Track Changes. Hi, Shannon, Congratulations! Fm happy for you that you were granted permission to wotk remotely for the foreseeable future, here are some tips on how to be productive working from home. Frtablish a defined workspace. Creating a dedicated workspace sends a cloar message to others in your house hold that you are doing work. - Respond to e-mall and texts. Check your e-mail and other messages at least 3 times a day. Answer all message promply, and send copys of relevant messages to the appropriate offce staff. - Transmit all work orders to Parker. Parker will analyze each weeks activityi and update all sales assignments and inventorys. - Prepare an end of week report. Send a summery of your weeks work to m a indicating the major accounts you managed. If you any questions about these tips do let me know as soon as possible. Please shoot e-mails to any staff member. When you noed clarification on a project, or if you just want to keep us updated We will continue to hold once a week staff meetings on Friday s at 9 a.m. in the moming. Join us for 1 or 2 of these meeting. The next one is on Friday June 9th. You're sure to enjoy working from home Shannon. Following these basic guideline should help you complete your work efficintly and provide the office with adequate communication. Best wishen, Ron Director, Pemonnel | Sirius Salee | byoung osiriussales.com | 909-848-9043