EN2150 - Week 2 - Competency Check

Competency Check

Week 2 - Scenario Check

Audience-Centered Business Messages

Competency Check

This is the assessment activity for Week 2. Complete the interactive scenario first, then use the knowledge checks to confirm the concept behind your professional judgment.

Media Interactive - 2-minute practice

Audience Switchboard

A referral update is accurate, but the same wording will not help every reader act. Inspect the scene, choose the adaptation strategy, and build a usable message.

  1. 1Observe
  2. 2Decide
  3. 3Build
  4. 4Reflect

Stage 1 - Inspect the scene

What matters before you respond?

Select every numbered cue in the image. Then use the cue key and evidence panel to distinguish what the scene supports from what you would still need to ask.

A workplace communicator compares one message adapted for a supervisor and a client.
Select all four cues. The evidence panel provides the accessible text equivalent.

Select a cue

Supervisor needDecision-ready summary
Client needPlain-language next step
Channel constraintEmail versus conversation
Stable factsSame evidence
Select a cue to examine the evidence behind it.

Mark interactive lab complete

Complete the scene, decision, process, and reflection stages.

Not yet marked complete.

Knowledge checks

Question 1

A supervisor needs a decision by noon, while a client needs a plain-language status update. What should the communicator do?

Question 2

Which opening is most useful for a busy reader who needs to act?

Question 3

When is email a poor channel for a professional message?

What this shows

Be ready to explain the audience, purpose, constraints, evidence, and revision choices represented by this week's artifact.