*****multimodality assignment
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Imagine that you are trying to encourage your university to adopt a more lenient policy when it comes to absences during flu season. In other words, you are converting the information you found in the CDC article from one mode (text) to another mode (a letter to someone at your university). Consider:
*****multimodality assignment
250 words
• Who—and I’m talking about a real person at this university—would you write to in order to get them to adopt a more lenient attendance policy during flu season? Why this person specifically?
• How would you tailor this message to the specific university official you’ve selected? What kinds of things/real-life events/real-life statistics (about our university specifically or beyond it) might this person be concerned about? What kinds of data could you hypothetically collect/what kinds of surveys could you hypothetically conduct that would make this person more amenable to your perspective on the issue? How do you want this person to feel while reading your letter/after reading your letter (concerned, guilty, etc.)? Why?