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The Business Writing Process

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. Condenses writing by omitting articles - pronouns - conjunctions - and transitions - e.g. ' Per 5/21 email 12 copies of instruction needed asap'






3. What are three levels of Revision?






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

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5. 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)






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






7. How do you present information in message?






8. What is the best advice for Drafting?






9. 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






10. 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






11. What are three levels of Editing?






12. Are these stages recursive or linear?






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






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






15. Conciseness






16. Goal and audience






17. What are Individual Contexts






18. Purpose - problem - plan/solution - conclusion






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






20. The relationships among ideas are clear to readers. A logical sequence of related ideas and clear transitions between these ideas.






21. Informal






22. 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






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






24. How do you Plan the message?






25. Formality Considerations






26. What is Direct Order?






27. Etiquette






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






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






30. Formal






31. Iitalics - bold type - underlining etc.






32. Correctness






33. What are Pros of Email?






34. 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?






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






36. What are the activities in the planning stage?






37. The attitude a writer expresses toward the subject and his or her readers. May range depending on purpose etc.






38. Clairty






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






40. Techniques for writing memos and emails are...






41. 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






42. 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






43. What is a Memorandum?






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






45. 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






46. 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






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






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






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






50. What is current emphasis on for a Letter?