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The Business Writing Process

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Concern policies and regulations found in employee handbooks and other internal corporate communications






2. Varying sentences by using a compound sentence - a complex sentence - or a simple sentence






3. General considerations with Email Messages






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






5. How is formatting important?






6. Iitalics - bold type - underlining etc.






7. To set you apart from the others; show that you have customized your resume for that company/job opening






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






9. Use Initialisms






10. What are Pros of Email?






11. 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






12. What are three levels of Editing?






13. Provide practical info - give facts - not impressions - provide visuals to clarify - give accurate measurements - stating responsibility precisely - persuading and offering recommendations






14. Make sure your e-mail is confidential and ethical - observe all of the proprietary requirements when using e-mail - use an acceptable format- follow all of the rules of 'netiqette' when answering e-mail - adopt a professional style - ensure that yo






15. Using short and long sentences strategically






16. Goal and audience






17. What types of research is done in gathering information?






18. Steps to Successful Writing






19. Are these stages recursive or linear?






20. Purpose - findings - conclusion - and recommendations






21. Am I giving the reader too much or too little info? - does this point belong here? - is this point relevant? - am I repeating or contradicting myself? - have I ended appropriately?






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






24. 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.






25. What is Indirect Order?






26. Identifying your audience - Establishing your purpose - Formulating your message - and Selecting your style (how something is written rather than what is written) and tone (expresses your attitude toward your topic and audience)






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






28. Casual






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






30. What is format of most Memos?






31. 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






32. What is important in the Revising stage?






33. Stages can also be summarized as...






34. What are Individual Contexts






35. A group of words that has a special meaning apart from its literal meaning. Someone who 'runs for office'






36. Listing the ideas or facts within a sentence in sequence from least to most important






37. Purpose - problem - plan/solution - conclusion






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






39. What are the activities in the planning stage?






40. Words or phrases that suddenly become popular and - because of an intense period of overuse - lose their freshness and precisness - E.g. interface (as a verb) - impact (as a verb) - skill sets - deliverables - slam dunk - bleeding edge - cash cow - 2






41. General ideas - qualities - conditions - acts or relationships-intangible things that cannot be detected by the five senses






42. What is current emphasis on for a Letter?






43. Repeating keywords and key phrases






44. Conciseness






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






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

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47. 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






48. Correctness






49. How do you begin the message?

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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.