1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:06,360 Okay, everybody, we are now going to go through our second live example. 2 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:13,890 And for this second live example, we're going to be looking at a semi-formal letter because we're writing 3 00:00:13,890 --> 00:00:16,170 a letter to a manager, it looks like. 4 00:00:16,740 --> 00:00:22,320 So as I said in the previous lecture, I am going to be writing this live. 5 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:26,490 So I'm not going to be able to necessarily be talking all the time. 6 00:00:26,490 --> 00:00:28,620 I know some people say, well, why aren't you talking more? 7 00:00:28,770 --> 00:00:30,330 Stop and explain, please. 8 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:35,370 I stopped and explained in section two of this lecture series. 9 00:00:35,850 --> 00:00:36,210 Right? 10 00:00:36,210 --> 00:00:43,230 This is about me writing something live so you can witness in C progression step by step by step. 11 00:00:44,310 --> 00:00:48,510 When I'm able to talk and stop and talk and explain, I will. 12 00:00:48,870 --> 00:00:56,460 But I'm trying to move through it and finish in a timely fashion and give you the ability to really 13 00:00:56,460 --> 00:01:01,320 see the parts happening live, because that's what you need to be able to do on paper. 14 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:04,500 So let's get started. 15 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:11,760 It says here that you have seen an advertisement of a valuable piece of equipment. 16 00:01:12,090 --> 00:01:15,600 Write a letter to your manager and ask to buy that product. 17 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:17,280 To be used in your company. 18 00:01:17,550 --> 00:01:23,250 Include the following in your letter what the equipment is, how it can be useful for the company, 19 00:01:23,250 --> 00:01:26,310 and describe the procedure for buying the equipment. 20 00:01:26,670 --> 00:01:31,980 So the first step that we have to do, as always, is to do an outline. 21 00:01:32,460 --> 00:01:38,580 You've seen from all the examples that I've done so far, every example that I've done so far, you've 22 00:01:38,580 --> 00:01:41,100 seen it happen the exact same way. 23 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:42,630 All right? 24 00:01:43,050 --> 00:01:51,250 It doesn't matter what type of letter it is, it's the same strategy because the same I shouldn't say 25 00:01:51,250 --> 00:01:54,750 the same strategy because language changes, whether it's formal or informal. 26 00:01:54,930 --> 00:01:58,200 It's the same structure and organization, let's put it that way. 27 00:01:58,500 --> 00:01:59,100 All right. 28 00:01:59,370 --> 00:02:01,410 So let's go ahead and get started. 29 00:02:01,410 --> 00:02:03,990 And we're going to get started with doing an outline. 30 00:02:04,290 --> 00:02:09,960 In my outline, I need to address these three parts, what the equipment is, how it can be useful, 31 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:11,880 and describe the procedure for buying. 32 00:02:14,790 --> 00:02:14,970 All right. 33 00:02:14,970 --> 00:02:16,440 So we have our outline. 34 00:02:19,330 --> 00:02:20,470 Part one, 35 00:02:24,070 --> 00:02:28,390 we're going to buy an all inclusive 36 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:31,850 recording booth. 37 00:02:31,860 --> 00:02:32,800 How about that? 38 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:36,400 One thing that I recommend you do. 39 00:02:36,430 --> 00:02:38,020 Write about what you know. 40 00:02:38,530 --> 00:02:38,950 Right. 41 00:02:38,950 --> 00:02:41,830 If you're a software engineer, buy software equipment. 42 00:02:42,250 --> 00:02:47,890 If you are a nurse, buy some nursing equipment. 43 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:50,470 If you're a dentist, buy dental equipment. 44 00:02:50,860 --> 00:02:54,570 So if you're a social worker, buy some pens and pencils. 45 00:02:54,580 --> 00:02:55,720 I guess I don't I don't know. 46 00:02:55,720 --> 00:03:02,320 But buy, buy, buy equipment that, you know, write about what you know. 47 00:03:04,900 --> 00:03:06,040 Part two. 48 00:03:06,490 --> 00:03:07,540 Oh, shoot. 49 00:03:08,380 --> 00:03:09,520 I shouldn't be up there. 50 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:12,970 How can it be useful? 51 00:03:14,620 --> 00:03:16,360 Record lessons. 52 00:03:17,890 --> 00:03:19,840 Online courses. 53 00:03:22,410 --> 00:03:27,180 They remember a lot of the ideas I'm thinking about. 54 00:03:27,180 --> 00:03:33,540 I may not actually use all those ideas, but I'm just trying to get things out of my head so I can focus 55 00:03:33,540 --> 00:03:37,200 on how I want to write. 56 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:40,590 If these online order form. 57 00:03:43,620 --> 00:03:49,980 Provide dimensions that's spelled wrong, although in a really in outline it doesn't really matter. 58 00:03:49,980 --> 00:03:56,970 But choose a color palette that's built, right? 59 00:03:57,390 --> 00:03:57,900 Yeah. 60 00:03:58,380 --> 00:04:00,960 All right, so I've done an outline. 61 00:04:01,830 --> 00:04:04,560 I think doing an outline is really, really helpful. 62 00:04:05,980 --> 00:04:06,390 Okay. 63 00:04:06,900 --> 00:04:09,120 And we're going to write this to our manager. 64 00:04:10,470 --> 00:04:11,850 Dear Mr. Campbell. 65 00:04:12,900 --> 00:04:15,000 And let me go ahead and. 66 00:04:17,010 --> 00:04:17,430 Come on. 67 00:04:17,430 --> 00:04:18,060 Is that it? 68 00:04:19,020 --> 00:04:19,370 All right. 69 00:04:19,380 --> 00:04:20,490 So, dear Mr. Campbell. 70 00:04:20,620 --> 00:04:25,770 So since it's a manager, since it's the manager, it's okay to use their last name? 71 00:04:25,770 --> 00:04:29,070 You wouldn't say, dear sir, madam right is semi-formal. 72 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:37,260 So it would be dear Mr. Campbell, dear Mrs. Williams, dear dear, whatever you want to put it as. 73 00:04:38,730 --> 00:04:41,160 And we're going to start out with our introduction. 74 00:05:41,010 --> 00:05:44,160 Equipment we should consider. 75 00:05:46,140 --> 00:05:46,620 Right there. 76 00:05:46,620 --> 00:05:49,800 We have a very, very good compound, complex sentence. 77 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:59,760 We have a very good sentence there that is going to really impress the greater right, really impressed 78 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:00,960 the grader a lot. 79 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:05,580 Och. 80 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:11,250 As the manager of our department you previously requested, we bring to your attention any great ideas 81 00:06:11,250 --> 00:06:12,780 to improve our capabilities. 82 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:15,870 And I have come across some equipment we should consider. 83 00:06:17,370 --> 00:06:20,100 Next, I have to talk about what the equipment is. 84 00:06:38,020 --> 00:06:38,440 Wouldn't be. 85 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:39,160 You discussed? 86 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:40,660 Probably we discussed. 87 00:07:11,590 --> 00:07:11,920 Right now. 88 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:14,590 If you notice, I said this equipment fits the bill. 89 00:07:14,620 --> 00:07:16,360 That's more colloquial language. 90 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:17,770 But it's okay here. 91 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:22,990 I don't want to do it too much, but it's okay here because this is a semi-formal letter. 92 00:07:23,020 --> 00:07:27,520 If this were a formal, really formal letter, I wouldn't put something like fits the bill. 93 00:07:55,660 --> 00:07:58,230 You know, I want to say it is. 94 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:01,560 I don't want to say it's. 95 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:12,240 Right. 96 00:08:20,300 --> 00:08:21,470 In addition. 97 00:08:34,050 --> 00:08:36,330 Also built in attachments for 98 00:08:38,730 --> 00:08:43,560 microphone, sound buffer 99 00:08:45,690 --> 00:08:48,930 and document holder. 100 00:08:50,610 --> 00:08:50,700 All right. 101 00:08:50,790 --> 00:08:54,690 So there I've kind of describe the equipment, what the equipment is. 102 00:08:58,370 --> 00:08:59,540 All right. 103 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:04,290 And then we have to move on to the next part about how it can be useful for the company. 104 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:20,320 The usefulness for our company is undeniable. 105 00:09:20,330 --> 00:09:27,170 He now gets the controlling idea of what this next paragraph is going to be about and going to discuss. 106 00:09:46,710 --> 00:09:48,150 We will be able to. 107 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:52,570 Properly. 108 00:10:16,910 --> 00:10:18,470 Equally important. 109 00:10:32,300 --> 00:10:50,090 Will enable us to enter the online course market since we can do all of our recordings in-house. 110 00:10:52,410 --> 00:10:58,620 To the required standard of production. 111 00:11:02,180 --> 00:11:03,270 What do you think so far? 112 00:11:03,290 --> 00:11:05,540 Do you think I'm convincing my manager? 113 00:11:05,850 --> 00:11:06,200 Right. 114 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:08,540 This is the semi-formal letter, right? 115 00:11:12,870 --> 00:11:14,670 This should be to our. 116 00:11:15,540 --> 00:11:16,140 All right. 117 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:25,860 And then we have to write about the next part, which is describe the procedure. 118 00:11:25,890 --> 00:11:29,370 Describe the procedure for buying the equipment. 119 00:11:44,260 --> 00:11:53,230 Well, again, you're seeing a short topic sentence here to kind of introduce where we're moving on 120 00:11:53,230 --> 00:11:53,770 to. 121 00:11:54,020 --> 00:11:54,270 All right. 122 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:59,230 You have to take somebodys hand and you have to walk them through where you're going. 123 00:11:59,560 --> 00:12:02,980 You have to take them in the direction that you want them to go. 124 00:12:27,590 --> 00:12:29,990 We have to fill out the basic online order form. 125 00:12:30,110 --> 00:12:35,570 Now, the good thing is that I already have my outline, so I don't have to think about what I need 126 00:12:35,570 --> 00:12:36,350 to do. 127 00:12:55,430 --> 00:13:01,220 Please provide the booth dimensions needed. 128 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:11,060 And the color palette for the outside. 129 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:18,350 All right, there's our next letter, and then we're missing. 130 00:13:18,350 --> 00:13:18,530 What? 131 00:13:18,530 --> 00:13:21,110 Guys, we just need our conclusion. 132 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:26,870 I really hope we can. 133 00:13:28,940 --> 00:13:30,160 Move quickly. 134 00:13:30,170 --> 00:13:32,420 Again, this is a semi-formal. 135 00:13:32,990 --> 00:13:40,670 If this were if this were a formal letter, I would probably say we should write, we should sew semi-formal. 136 00:13:40,670 --> 00:13:43,460 I hope you're getting the idea of the tone. 137 00:14:08,150 --> 00:14:09,350 Available. 138 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:17,530 In the next quarter. 139 00:14:19,410 --> 00:14:19,700 Right. 140 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:22,060 And there we have it. 141 00:14:23,170 --> 00:14:26,230 We're going to give him a best regards. 142 00:14:31,430 --> 00:14:33,650 From Good Ole. 143 00:14:38,750 --> 00:14:43,430 With best regards from Kevin Smith. 144 00:14:45,010 --> 00:14:45,540 Right. 145 00:14:45,550 --> 00:14:47,610 And we're going to give Kevin actually a title. 146 00:14:47,620 --> 00:14:50,740 It's not necessary, I guess. 147 00:14:51,510 --> 00:14:52,020 Oh, 148 00:14:55,070 --> 00:14:57,850 I guess that's what happens. 149 00:14:57,970 --> 00:14:59,620 That's what happens when you're writing live. 150 00:14:59,620 --> 00:15:00,760 You make mistakes. 151 00:15:01,180 --> 00:15:01,540 All right. 152 00:15:01,540 --> 00:15:04,120 So there we have our letter, everybody. 153 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:06,760 All right. 154 00:15:06,790 --> 00:15:09,730 And our word count. 155 00:15:12,860 --> 00:15:13,460 Let's just do it. 156 00:15:13,460 --> 00:15:15,640 All of it to 13. 157 00:15:16,770 --> 00:15:17,330 Right. 158 00:15:18,350 --> 00:15:20,650 We have a solid letter in. 159 00:15:20,770 --> 00:15:26,450 And what really helped me to be able to write it so quickly and write write it so quickly is that I 160 00:15:26,490 --> 00:15:34,130 had an outline in front of me and then outline enable me to just write and keep going and know what 161 00:15:34,130 --> 00:15:37,160 the idea is and focus on how I want to say it. 162 00:15:38,090 --> 00:15:39,440 So I hope you enjoy that. 163 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:44,660 And we have one more live writing for a formal letter. 164 00:15:45,740 --> 00:15:49,880 Formal letter that I will kind of go live through and show you how to do. 165 00:15:50,090 --> 00:15:53,280 So I hope this is working out well for you. 166 00:15:53,300 --> 00:15:59,300 I want you to really study hard, work hard, do your best, work on your application of theory. 167 00:15:59,870 --> 00:16:01,850 I'll talk to you soon in the next lecture.