You work as a buyer for Sport Chek at its head office in Toronto. The regional manager, your boss, has asked you to collaborate with Hans, a co-worker in Sport Chek’s Winnipeg office, to write a report comparing the costs, retail prices, features, customer reviews, sales histories, and other data of the various bicycles that Sport Chek sells. You and Hans agree to work on different sections of the report and then combine the two sections. Hans agrees to get his portion to you a week before the manager has asked for the completed report.
-When you arrived at work this morning, you checked your calendar. It showed that, as well as your bicycle report, you have several other tasks to complete in the next few days. According to your text, which of the following messages will likely require that you spend the greatest amount of time profiling your audience?
A)You need to prepare an article on bike maintenance and post it to your company's Web page.
B)You need to write an email to a sales representative for Diamondback bikes, with whom you have worked closely for several years, asking him to send some more brochures for display in your stores.
C)You need to fill in and submit an online form to your human resources department to book two weeks of the holidays you have earned.
D)You need to telephone a co-worker to find out if she has registered for an upcoming trade show that you will be attending.

Question

You work as a buyer for Sport Chek at its head office in Toronto. The regional manager, your boss, has asked you to collaborate with Hans, a co-worker in Sport Chek’s Winnipeg office, to write a report comparing the costs, retail prices, features, customer reviews, sales histories, and other data of the various bicycles that Sport Chek sells. You and Hans agree to work on different sections of the report and then  combine the two sections. Hans agrees to get his portion to you a week before the manager has asked for the completed report.
-When you arrived at work this morning, you checked your calendar. It showed that, as well as your bicycle report, you have several other tasks to complete in the next few days. According to your text, which of the following messages will likely require that you spend the greatest amount of time profiling your audience?
A)You need to prepare an article on bike maintenance and post it to your company's Web page.
B)You need to write an email to a sales representative for Diamondback bikes, with whom you have worked closely for several years, asking him to send some more brochures for display in your stores.
C)You need to fill in and submit an online form to your human resources department to book two weeks of the holidays you have earned.
D)You need to telephone a co-worker to find out if she has registered for an upcoming trade show that you will be attending.

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Writing an article for the company's website on bike maintenance requires a thorough profiling of the audience to ensure that the article is tailored to their interests and skill level. Depending on the intended audience, the article may need to be written in a more technical or accessible language, include more or fewer visuals, and touch on specific topics relevant to the audience's needs. Therefore, this task would likely require the greatest amount of time profiling the audience.

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