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IMM Graduate School of Marketing
Assignment: 1st
Semester 2014 BC / BC101
ASSIGNMENT 1ST SEMESTER : BUSINESS COMMUNICATION (BC)
BUSINESS COMMUNICATION 1 (BC101)
STUDY UNITS COVERED : STUDY UNITS 1, 4, 5, 6 AND 8 DUE DATE :
3:00 p.m. 18 MARCH 2014 TOTAL MARKS : 100
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES FOR COMPLETING AND SUBMITTING
ASSIGNMENTS
The complete Instructions to Students for Completing and
Submitting Assignments must be
collected from any IMM GSM office, the relevant IMM GSM
recognised Additional Tuition Centre
or can be downloaded from the IMM GSM website. It is essential
that the complete instructions
be studied prior to commencing your assignment. The following
points highlight only a few
important notes.
1. You are required to submit ONE assignment per module.
2. The assignment will contribute 20% towards the final
examination mark, and the other 80% will be contributed by the
examination, however, the examination papers will count out of
100%.
3. Although your assignment will contribute towards your final
examination mark, you do not have to earn credits for admission to
the examinations; you are automatically accepted on registering for
the exam.
4. Number all the pages of your assignment (e.g. page 1 of 4)
and write your name and surname, student number and subject at the
top of each page.
5. The IMM GSM requires assignments to be presented in a typed
format, on plain A4 paper. Unless otherwise specified, this
assignment must be completed within a limit of 1500 words,
excluding the bibliography. Students who exceed the word limit may
find that only part of the submitted assignment will be marked.
6. A separate assignment cover, which is provided by the IMM
GSM, must be attached to the front of each assignment.
7. Retain a copy of each assignment before submitting, in case
the original does not reach the IMM GSM.
8. The assignment due date refers to the day up to which
assignments will be accepted for marking purposes. The deadline is
3:00 p.m. on 18 March 2014. Late assignments will be accepted, but
25 marks will be deducted from the maximum mark, if received after
3:00 p.m. on 18 March 2014 and up to 5:00 p.m. the following day,
after which no assignments will be accepted.
9. If you fail to follow these instructions carefully, the IMM
Graduate School of Marketing cannot accept responsibility for the
return of the assignment. It may even result in your assignment not
being marked.
Results will be available on the IMM GSM website,
www.immgsm.ac.za, on Friday, 2 May 2013.
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IMM Graduate School of Marketing
Assignment: 1st
Semester 2014 BC / BC101
Answer ALL the questions
QUESTION 1 [25]
Imagine that you are a young journalist in training and you have
been asked to write an article for the local shopping centre
newsletter which is distributed to customers to give them
information on events or new store openings. Think about two of the
main purposes of business communication. They are as follows:
To inform
To persuade. Read the following paragraph attentively. It is
written in an informative but dry and unstructured style. The new
bakery and coffee shop called Pierres Boulangerie will open in
Green Meadows shopping centre on 1 June. It will make artisanal
breads with special flour imported from France. The owner, Pierre
Gilbert, emigrated from France to this country and has spent the
last two years equipping and decorating the bakery. The shop will
be minimalist in style. The light brown wooden furniture was
hand-crafted by local workers from a sheltered co-operative which
was established to give trade skills training to young
ex-prisoners. It is hoped that the bakery will prove to be popular
with the local community.
- Now rewrite the paragraph above in your own words as an
interesting and persuasive article fit for publication in the
newsletter.
- Give the article a heading, use proper, logical layout and
approximately six paragraphs.
- Write the article in an enthusiastic style.
- Add any additional information that you think might add
interest to your article
which is designed to promote the new bakery.
QUESTION 2 [25] As manager of a new bakery/coffee shop in Green
Meadows called Pierres Boulangerie, draw up an interesting full
page and colourful advertisement to place in the bakery window to
invite applications from marketing students for part-time shift
work as waiters/waitresses to work in the bakery on Saturdays and
Sundays. Include in your advertisement the requirements for the
positions, information on working hours as well as the application
process for interested students.
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IMM Graduate School of Marketing
Assignment: 1st
Semester 2014 BC / BC101
QUESTION 3 [20] You are the marketing manager of a shipping
company in Greece and you have been researching annual production
of tomatoes in Europe for 2012. You have looked at the statistics
for the six major tomato producing countries and found that their
annual production in metric tons is as follows: Spain 3.8 million;
Netherlands 815 000; Poland 677 000; Italy 6.0 million; France 636
000; Greece 1.2 million. Draw a full page, eye-catching and
colourful pictograph as a graphic communication device to reflect
this information in an interesting way. Highlight any aspect in
your graph that you think might be particularly important for your
own organisation. QUESTION 4 [20] Correct or improve the grammar,
spelling or language usage in the following sentences to reflect
correct, modern English usage. (Do not change the meaning of the
sentences.) 4.1 The student experienced some few difficulties with
the examination. 4.2 The meeting will start from two oclock until
five oclock today. 4.3 The manager of the supermarket said it was
not his companys policy to give
refunds back. 4.4 The secretary informed the caller that she had
never seen the manager that
morning. 4.5 The instructor told the learner to reverse the car
backwards into the parking
bay. 4.6 In my curriculum vitae, I stated that I had three years
experience. 4.7 Only a small amount of delegates attended the
seminar. 4.8 The intern asked his mentor for his advise on which
short course he should
take. 4.9 May you please reply to me as soon as possible. 4.10
The students were reminded to arrive in time for lectures every
day.
PRESENTATION [10]
ASSIGNMENT TOTAL: 100
