Description
Assignment: Letter Report
Readings: Lesikar’s Chapter 11, pages 349 – 362
Sample letter Report, pages 360 – 361
Lesikar’s Appendix B, pages 608 – 611
Length: 750 words minimum, not counting Works Cited
Audience: Your supervisor, colleagues, and clients
Purpose: To research and recommend career advice to potential clients
Format: Formal business letter style, including the following elements:
Return Address (or you may use a Letterhead)
Date
Inside Address
Salutation, followed by colon
Letter contents
Closing
Signature Block
Second Page Heading
MLA-style parenthetical, in-text references for any source material used
MLA-style Works Cited List
Writing Situation: You work for a company1 whose mission is to offer advice to college students who are
considering their career options. In today’s meeting, your supervisor asked you to research the career
outlook in one of the Occupation Groups listed in the “Occupational Outlook Handbook” section on the
government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) website available at this address:
For example, if you click the Education, Training, and Library link in the Occupational Groups list, you
might research the career of High School Teacher. If you click the Healthcare link, you might research
the Nursing career. You may select any career from the ones listed on the BLS website.
Assignment Requirements: Write a 750-word (roughly two full pages, single-spaced) Letter Report in
which you present your findings about the career outlook for the occupation you have chosen to
research. You should include the following information, in addition to any other relevant material you
find in your research:
Employment prospects
Typical jobs
Advancement opportunities
Salary range
Career advantages/disadvantages
Typical responsibilities
Your recommendations (see below for more information about this important section)
1 In writing about the company in this assignment, you should feel free to make up a company name.
2 You must use this website in your research
To succeed on this assignment, you will need clear recommendations in your Report. The specific
audience for this part of the Report will be the potential clients who seek advice about their careers.
Based on your research, what would you recommend to a college student who is interested in the career you have researched in this Report? In addition to the BLS website provided above, you might also search for information disseminated by professional societies. These groups will often publish useful statistics on salaries, working conditions, and other information about the field. For instance, the NSA and AICPA are both professional societies for Accountants. Whatever sources you use should be credible and professional or academic-based.
Do not consult sources such as Wikipedia, Ask, or other sites whose information might not be reliable.
Explanation & Answer
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[Street Address]
[Street Address 2]
[City, ST ZIP Code]
[phone number]
[fax number]
[email address]
[website URL]
[Date]
[Client Name]
[Street Address]
[City, ST ZIP Code]
Dear ……………..:
As the holidays approach and end of year draws to a close, I want to thank you for your hard
work over the last year. I would like to give insight of nursing career and beneficial to enhance
skills levels and apply jobs. The nurse practitioners are essentially advanced practice registered
nurses. They are individuals educated as well as trained to provide maintenance and promotion
of health through diagnosing and providing treatment for both acute as well as chronic illnesses.
The nursing practitioners manage medical conditions that are both physical as well as mental.
They manage them through history, physical examinations as well as through making orders
of the required diagnostic tests needed for the medical treatments. The nursing practitioners
can work in offices, clinics, hospitals or even nursing homes.
In any state, the practice of offering nursing services as a right is granted by a state so that it
can protect the citizens in need of the nursing care. The competent nursing needed has its
ground in a state's guideline for the Nurse Practice Act (NPA) and the rules governing it.
Therefore, all the practicing nurses have a duty to ensure they understand their NPA as well as
keeping up with any ongoing changes in the document as the nursing professional is dynamic.
The intention of this parti...