Professional Email Assignment

To better align writing instruction with workplace expectations, an annotated bibliography assignment in an evidence-based practice course was replaced with a professional email assignment that intentionally preserves all core evidence components. Students first review examples of effective and ineffective professional emails. They then receive a scenario-based manager's email describing a common unit practice issue, such as patient falls, along with a randomized controlled trial, and draft an email to the manager summarizing the study's purpose, design, population, key findings, and credibility, including limitations and generalizability. Whitnie Willis explains this assignment in the podcast and teaching tip.