The document contains examples of business writing exercises including responding to emails and writing a short essay on a given topic. The first email discusses plans to implement a new marketing project and requests confirmation that requested system changes are possible. The second email inquires about receiving more information about a product to help evaluate deploying it in the company. The essay prompts provide options to write a 2-page essay on either the advantages and disadvantages of working in a corporation or significant customer service issues, utilizing connecting phrases to structure the writing.

1. Business Writing – Practice
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1. Reply to e-mails
Dear All,
Please be advised that we are planning to implement a new marketing project in our company. The starting date has been set to 12th
May 2013.
I would kindly like to ask you to make all the necessary changes in the system by the end of this week. Please inform us about the
improvement that has been already done.
Please find all the details about requested changes attached. Please confirm that everything included in attached documents is
possible.
Thank you in advance.
Best Regards,
XYZ
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am writing to you because our company is very much interested in your product ABC.
We are a middle-sized manufacturing company and we are expanding very dynamically. Therefore, we encountered a need of
improving our management system in all business areas.
We would really appreciate it if you could send us a general offer with some more details about ABC and a short description of it.
Once we have a better view on your product we will be able to make an arrangement and deliver your all the necessary information in
order to deploy ABC in our company.
Thank you very much in advance for your cooperation.
Kind Regards,
XYZ
2. Write a short essay (choose one of the following):
Advantages and disadvantages of working in a corporation? – max. 2 pages
What are the most significant issues related to customer service? – max. 2 pages
Use as many phrases as possible.
First of all, / To begin with, / Second of all, / All in all, / To sum up, / Moreover, / What is more, / On the other hand, / Although /
Despite / Most of people / …