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The Fictional Complaint Department

I’m teaching a class called “Written Professional Communication” at the University of Pittsburgh. Amongst other things it’s about… well, communicating professionally in writing. Currently we’re working on “responding to complaints”. In order to generate some complaint s to respond to I instructed my students to write a complaint letter as though they lived in the fictional universe of their choosing:

9-29-06

Day 49 of 365 days. Steph and I invited friends over tonight to play Scrabble. Sadly we didn’t win, but it presented a nice change up for my daily portrait. Had a really bad night with it. I’ve never played and gotten so many vowels and so few consonants. This is me putting my starting…