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Question: Understand that business has a culture, and analyze the ways that both business and culture are important to the business writing process.
Understand and analyze writing as a process that includes research (especially of an audience and desired outcomes), drafting, and peer and instructor feedback.
Understand and analyze business writing as a process that requires knowledge and use of genres.
Apply understanding of business writing to increasingly complex business problems.
Analyze, evaluate, and apply popular methods for researching business and culture.
Create and evaluate one's own original ethos and methods for writing in a cultural and business context.
The deliverables required for this project include:
Cultural analysis of one country (1,500 words). Please note: You cannot choose your home country or a country you have lived in. Use APA format.
Letter to a peer in class on potential problems related to cultural misunderstandings in a professional capacity (300 words).
PART 1: CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF ONE COUNTRY
Revise Peer Review 2: write a cultural analysis of one country (1,500 words) that is not your home country or a country you have lived in. This cultural analysis should use the qualitative and quantitative methods of this course to describe at least three cultural dimensions of the country.
This cultural analysis should use qualitative analysis to analyze an "artifact." In this case, an artifact refers to an image or video footage which depicts at least 3 cultural dimensions related to the country you're studying.
The 3 cultural dimensions must be reasonably found in the image or video footage.
This cultural analysis should also use quantitative data to describe how data (surveys, country rankings, and/or questions and answers in the World Values Survey) support, complicate, or contradict your discussion of your artifact. This data may be collected from the World Values Survey, academic sources, governments sources, etc.
Lastly, this cultural analysis should describe your method as a researcher by answering the following questions:
What kinds of practices are you studying?
What kinds of organizations or institutions are your studying?
Which of the six cultural dimensions are you describing and why?
In what ways are you following the methods of the scholars that this course has studied?
In what ways are you using your own methods?
What objections, defenses, or corrections do you have to the methods or ideas of the scholars that this course has studied?
Part 2: Letter to peer in this class
Write a formal professional letter (300 words) to a peer in this class addressing how your cultural analysis may assist in managing or even solving international miscommunications.
Begin a conversation about ideas for what international relationships or international business problems could be managed or solved (even in a preliminary way) by their cultural analysis.
Includes an opening, middle, and closing in which the opening and closing motivate your reader, contextualize your message, and to generally manage the relationship with them and the middle includes an executive summary of your cultural analysis.
Follows the conventions of a professional letter.
Evaluation
Your assignment will be evaluated based on the following objectives:
Audience:
Letter written to a real person, in the class, with a request relevant to you using cultural analysis to address a real world business problem that can arise as a result of cultural differences.
Clearly communicate a request relevant to the reader and project.
Context and content explained with reader's knowledge and needs in mind.
Content presented for the purpose of persuading the reader to take the desired action.
Letter opening and closing manages and is responsive to your specific relationship with the reader.
Cultural Analysis:
Describes context about the real-world country useful for cultural analysis.
Letter relates key points from the cultural analysis to a real-world business or professional problem.