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The Business Writing Process

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Places the reader's interest and perspective foremost. It is based on the principle that most readers are naturally more concerned about their own needs than they are about those of a writer or a writer's organization - often means using the words y

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2. What is important in the Revising stage?






3. Provide practical information - give facts not impressions - provide visuals to clarify and condense information - give accurate measurements - state responsibilities precisely - persuade and offer recommendations -






4. Why Avoid Perfectionism in Drafting?






5. What is the best advice for Drafting?






6. Understand and agree on the important goals - organization - and deadlines for the report - Establish group rules early on and stick to them - Put the good of the group ahead of individual egos - Agree on the group's organization - Identify each mem






7. Casual






8. How is formatting important?






9. The ___________ of a word are its meanings and associations beyond its literal definitions - words often have particular connotations for audiences within professional groups and organizations






10. How much time should a student spend in each writing stage?






11. Used to show - by the structure of a sentence - the appropriate relationship between ideas of unequal importance.






12. What is Indirect Order?






13. What are three levels of Editing?






14. What should you know about a Letter?






15. How to end an email






16. Means that extraneous words - phrases - clauses - and sentences have been removed from writing without sacrificing clarity or appropriate detail.






17. How do you present information in long messages?






18. Purpose - findings - conclusion - and recommendations






19. An imaginative expression that often compares two things that are basically not alike but have at least one thing in common.






20. Plan what you are going to say - polish what you wrote before you sent it - proofread everything

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21. An inoffensive substitute for a word or phrase that could be distasteful - offensive - or too blunt.






22. Put instructions is correct order - right amount of information only - group closely related items into 1 step - give reader hints on how to best accomplish task - state when 1 step affects another - insert graphics where needed






23. Words and expressions that offend because they make inappropriate assumptions or stereotypes about gender - ethnicity - physical or mental disability - age or sexual orientation.






24. Stages can also be summarized as...






25. Audience's preferences - personal work style - how widely info needs to be distributed etc.






26. Purpose - problem - plan/solution - conclusion






27. Introduction; list of equipment and materials; steps for your instructions; warnings - cautions - and notes; conclusion






28. Modifiers that repeat an idea implicit or present in the word being modified contribute to wordiness by being redundant (basic essentials - final outcome) - Coordinated synonyms (each and every - first and foremost.) - Expletives - relative pronouns






29. What is a Memorandum?






30. Less formal than in the past - Varies from conversational style - The use of personal pronouns is important - In emails etc. something between conversational & business writing should be used - Only use we when it is company policy






31. General considerations with Email Messages






32. Use Initialisms






33. Formal






34. Avoid language that attempts to evade responsibility - Avoid deceptive language - Do not deemphasize or suppress important information - Do not emphasize misleading or incorrect information - Avoid using language that is biased - racist - or sexist o






35. Honesty - attractive - carefully organized - concise accurate - current information - relevance






36. A sentence that is so tangled with structural and grammatical problems that it cannot be repaired - often result from trying to include too many ideas in one sentence.






37. To emphasize the performer of an action: make the performer the subject of the verb






38. Expressions that have been used fro so long that they are no longer fresh but come to mind easily bc they are so familiar. Often wordy as well as vague and cab be confusing - especially to non-native English speakers - E.g. all over the map - run it






39. The principle of of stressing the most important ieas in writing. You can achieve this with the careful use of: Position - Climatic Order - Sentence Type - Sentence Length - Sentence Length - Active Voice - Repetition - Intensifiers - Direct Stateme






40. Using words like 'most - much - very' with caution - wthout overdoing it.






41. Where you put the idea - The first & last words of a sentence - paragraph - doc - stand out in readers' minds.






42. What are the activities in the planning stage?






43. Letters - memos - email - instant messages - telephone calls - Faxes - Face-to-face meetings - video conferences - web sites






44. Steps to Successful Writing






45. An organized presentation of relevant data on any topic that a company or agency tracks in its day-to-day operations






46. What are three levels of Revision?






47. Conciseness






48. How do you know what to include in your message?






49. They dentify things that can be perceived by the 5 senses - such as diploma - manager - or keyboard






50. The skeleton of the document you are going to write--structures your writing by ensuring that it has a beginning - middle - and end.Types: topic outlines - sentence outlines etc.