Knowing Your Audience – San Jose Mine By Ash H Business Communication and Creative Writing After reviewing the short article that described the incident which occurred at San Jose mine (a small copper operation in the northern Chile that is owned by Minera San Esteban Primera), I felt that it was properly direct and to the point and did not steer away from all the important information that any audience would find necessary in order to be involved of the situation. However, I did notice how
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Knowing Your Audience Paper and Communication On August 5, 2010 in Chili, a San Jose Mine collapsed. The Minera San Esteban Primera Company had their employees working during this collapse, which was fatal 33 miners were killed. They fell in hole that was 300 meters or 2,300 feet below. The 33 fatal employees consist of one Bolivian and 32 of them were Chileans. At this time there was chaos wondering if there were any survivors in the trapped hole. When the media came out and broadcasted
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In 2010, 33 miners were trapped in a copper mine for a little over two months. The incident was covered through every world media outlet from televised news broadcast, radio stations, websites, to conventional newspapers. “On Aug. 5, 2010, a gold and copper mine near the northern city of Copiapó, Chile caved in, trapping 33 miners in a chamber about 2,300 feet below the surface. For 17 days, there was no word on their fate. As the days passed, Chileans grew increasingly skeptical that any of the
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Chilean Mining Incident BCOM/275 Any time a business suffers some type of tragedy that could potentially involve serious injury or loss of life to the employees of the company, it is very important to ensure that the communication that follows is appropriate. The process of handling these types of events can make or break a company in the wake of a disaster. Communication to the families of the victims of the disaster will need a different type of communication than will the employees of the
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Tragedy In Chilean Mine Daniel H Cox BCOM/275 11/26/2012 Rhonda Waters Knowing Your Audience To know your audience is what every company and personal communication is about, without an idea of your potential audience, your communication will not be received properly. Depending on your audience you will want to use on of the three elements of persuasion; logos- the logical approach, pathos – the emotional approach , and ethos- the you approach- showing
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San Esteban Primera Mining Company, San Jose Mine Collapse This letter was handed to this representative standing before you by the CEO from the San Jose mine of the San Esteban Mining Company. This letter is being hand delivered so that you can be assured that no misconstrued or misleading information is obtained other than the facts I am presenting you at this time. I the CEO from the San Jose Mine of the San Esteban Mining Company am saddened to say with the utmost respect for the consideration
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On August 5, 2010, the lives of 33 Chilean miners would be changed forever. A cross in the desert now marks the spot where the mine had collapsed and trapped 33 men nearly a half-mile under millions of tons of earth. News reporters across the world flocked to Chile to capture every waking moment as these newly dubbed heroes were ripped from the beneath earth as if they were roots entwined deep within the dusty clutch of the lowest crust of the planet. The story made national headlines and each
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Knowing your audience On the morning of August 5th, 2010 33 miners descended down below the dusty surface of Chile’s Atacama desert for what should have been another day of hard labor in the copper mine below. On this day, they would not come back to the surface (Yang, 2010). The San Jose mine, a small operation owned by Minera San Esteban Primera in the northern part of Chile, suffered a cave-in that trapped the men more than 900 feet below the surface. Delivered will be two speeches to different
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Knowing Your Audience BCOM/275 Memorandum To: San Jose Mine Employees From: President Date: August 5, 2010 Subject: San Jose Mine Collapse I am writing to San Jose mine employees to notify every one of the cave in of the mine in which 33 of our fellow colleagues are currently trapped in. Although is too early to tell if the miners are safe, we are in the process of working with the government to assemble a rescue operation. We will be relentless in our efforts to exhaust every channel
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information should be shared. You would not want to share information that has not been confirmed. The families of the miners will need reassurance. They need a caring individual as well as someone who is determined to help those who are stuck in the mine. The miners’ families are going to need reassurance that everything thing will work out but they also need reliable information. Many will end up relying on news stations for information if they are not kept in contact with someone at the scene, this
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