Level 1 Business Writing

Sample Item

Prompt:

At your office, employees are allowed to skip their morning and/or afternoon breaks to take longer lunch breaks. However, the personnel manager says that employees have been taking too much time on their lunch breaks as a result of this policy. She wants to require all employees to take their morning and afternoon breaks and the standard lunch break. Write a letter to the personnel manager explaining whether or not you are in favor of this proposal and why.

Level 1 Sample Response

I dont think its right for you to take are choice to not use our morning and afternoon breaks to have a longer lunch break! If we have a choice. I think you should writ up people that come back late if ther 3 times or more that have to work late or come in earlie. I hope you take in to thouht! We want you to do whats best. You know whats best. Yes.

Why this is a Level 1 response:

Sentence construction errors, such as fragments, can hinder understanding (I hope you take in to thouht! If we have a choice.).
Errors in grammar and mechanics are frequent and interfere with communication. Errors include misspellings such as writ, earlie, and thouht; the incorrect use of there instead of they're and are instead of our; and missing apostrophes in dont, its, and whats.
Tone, style, and/or language are inconsistent with standard business English (I dont think its right for you to take are choice to not use our morning and afternoon breaks to have a longer lunch break!).
The writing lacks organization. The response has no transitions or paragraph breaks and seems to skip around.
Although there is an attempt to communicate ideas, there is only simple development. The response presents basic thoughts against the new policy, with little development.

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