The bad news message that I have chosen to analyze, is a message of the salary reduction sent from a director of the human resources department to a staff from the division of language studies in a university. There is only one main idea in the whole letter; it is to inform the audience, who is the staff from the division of language studies, that there will be a deduction in her university salary.
The letter is written in a direct approach, which means from the letter the main idea can be straightly and clearly understood by the intended audience. The reason that direct approach is being used in this salary reduction letter is because among various kinds of bad news messages, salary reduction is not regarded as a very serious kind of bad news such as termination of contract etc. By looking at the heading of the letter ¡§Adjustment of University Salaries¡¨, the word ¡§adjustment¡¨ is a word with positive tone that effectively replaced the actual word ¡§deduction¡¨. It is good to......
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