Your role: You are a new online college student and you are requesting possible tuition reimbursement compensation from your employer.  Write a one page persuasive memo to your boss or immediate supervisor and the director of human resources at your place of employment explaining the situation; persuade these important people in a diplomatic, formal style memo why you feel you deserve this benefit. Make sure they understand what online higher education is and why it has the same value as a face to face “on ground” university degree.  

Your strategy:

• Introduce and/or provide background information for the main idea of this memo
• Use clear and concise sentences or bulleted reasons for persuading these people
• Highlight the benefits to you, them and the company if they grant your request
• Conclude by stating exactly what you want done, by when, and restate a key benefit

General Guidelines: 

• You may use a memo template from Word, if you wish, but please save as a PDF before submitting to ensure your formatting remains intact.
• See information about memos and sample memo in Workplace Writing text.
• You may use headings for the different sections of your memo.
• If you are not presently employed, use a fictitious employer.
• Try to keep the length of this memo to one page (only this assignment is to be single spaced).
• There is no need to submit a cover page, abstract or references page due to the nature of this assignment.

The paper should be well-written,  APA Requirements, and approximately 1 page in length.