ENN1504 Assignment 1 Semester 1 2024

ENN1504 Assignment 1 Semester 1 2024 ... 100 % TRUSTED workings, explanations and solutions. For assistance call or W.h.a.t.s.a.p.p us on +/ 2/ 5/ 4 /7 /7 /9 /5 /4 /0 /1 /3 /2 . WRITING SKILLS IN WORKPLACE CORRESPONDENCE Please read the following guidelines before attempting to answer this assignment: The purpose of this question is to assess your ability to record minutes of a meeting accurately and objectively, using formal language. This requires you to do the necessary preparatory reading so that you can answer the question adequately. Work through Unit 2 in the Study Guide and Learning Unit 2 in the workbook before attempting to answer this question ENN1504/101/3/2024 2 QUESTION 1: MINUTES OF A MEETING BACKGROUND Mr Dube is the chairperson of the Student Support Committee at Malusi University. The Student Support Office together with the Student Representative Council (SRC) members have decided to engage the student body as well as do community work with local schools affected by drug abuse. Mr Dube called a meeting with the Student Support Officials and members of the SRC to discuss drug abuse issues at the university and how they could reach out to help students from neighbouring schools who experience drug abuse problems. INSTRUCTIONS Below is a transcript (exact words written down) of what was said under item agenda of this meeting presented in the form of a dialogue. As the secretary for the Student Support Office at Malusi university, it is your duty to take minutes during meetings. Malusi University is overwhelmed by drug abuse problems which affect student performance and enhances high dropout rate. At this point, the meeting is discussing Agenda Item 3.5: Drug abuse issues and student support. This means that the complete format for minutes is not required. Remember that in taking minutes, we carefully select and summarise information, and make changes to style and grammar. Note that you should not record what each person said in turn. You should use the linear format of minutes (in sentences and paragraphs). Your answer should not exceed ONE page in length. TRANSCRIPT Mr Dube (Chair): Colleagues and dear students, drug addiction is rife here at out university and our communities. Most of our students perform bad or even drop out from the university due to this addiction. Our neighbouring schools are also experiencing gangsterism, poor performance and even high rates of student drop out, and that is directly or indirectly emanating from drug abuse. As an institution, we have a duty to intervene and assist students as much as we can. We are also expected to stretch a helping hand to our neighbouring schools and assist wherever we can. Our agenda item now colleagues is therefore 3.5: Drug abuse issues and student support. But before we go any further with these issues, the committee has invited Ms Botha, an owner of a drug rehabilitation centre closed by, to just give us an idea about the impact of drug abuse and how the centre assists. Let us allow Ms Botha to share information with us. ENN1504/101/3/2024 3 Ms Botha: Thanks very much, Chair. I am a former drug addict who has opened my home and heart to poor people battling with substance abuse locally. I have turned my three-bedroom house into a rehabilitation centre for addicts who want to start afresh but cannot afford to pay for their recovery. Botha Recovery Centre hosts patients aged between 13 to 68 years for free. We help people who are heavy alcoholics or addicts of crack cocaine, “whoonga” or “dagga” and “nyaope.” Most of the patients are unemployed, some live on the streets doing drugs before getting help from the centre, and many have confessed to stealing from their families and house breaking to feed their addiction. The centre provides a free 14 or 21-day stay for addicts but in extreme cases treatment can be prolonged. They are helped by volunteers who are recovering addicts. The centre has doctors and social workers who work without charge. Mr Dube: Thank you so much Ms Botha for sharing with us the contribution of your centre in assisting our community. Very few people can avail their premises for free especially in assisting patients with possibilities of stealing from them. Ms Oriel: Chair! As the SRC, we also have friends from the university who are addicts or recovered addicts who shared their stories with us. For instance, one friend said that she was introduced to “whoonga” by a friend last year and that she would do things such as stealing from her mother and grandmother to get money to buy the drug. The other one was chased from home to live in the streets because of her addition. She tried to quit but that did not last. She was referred to the Botha Recovery centre by her cousin and she never looked back. Chair, there are many students who are struggling with this addiction and the question is, how can we assist as the university and the student body?