Practice writing buffers:-
For the situations in Exercise for which you chose the indirect plan, write a buffer statement. Then compare your buffers with those of two other students. Which work best and why?

Exercise :
Organize a bad-news message.
For the following situations, would you use the direct or indirect organizational plan for a written message? When you choose an organizational plan, you're making assumptions about your readers and how they might react. Discuss your ideas in small groups.

• After three on-site job interviews, you decline an offer for a summer internship with an alumnus of your college.

• After meeting a CEO at an on-campus job fair, you decline an interview with the company because it is not in your hometown.

• You decline a lunch invitation from a college friend who works for a competitor.

• You decline an employee's vacation request because he wants to be away during your busy season.

• You inform a supplier that you do not plan to renew your contract.

• You inform customers that a product has been discontinued.