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The Business Writing Process

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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. What is the best advice for Drafting?






3. When should email NOT be used?






4. 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.






5. Casual






6. Why Avoid Perfectionism in Drafting?






7. Use Initialisms






8. What is Direct Order?






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






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






11. What techniques can be used for gathering information?






12. What are three levels of Revision?






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






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






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






16. Use to call attention to a particular word or statement --






17. Tell and show how to do something






18. Goal and audience






19. What are Cons of Email?

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






21. Are these stages recursive or linear?






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






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






24. 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






25. Formality Considerations






26. Concern policies and regulations found in employee handbooks and other internal corporate communications






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

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28. What is format of most Memos?






29. What are three levels of Editing?






30. 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?






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






32. Conciseness






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






34. What are Individual Contexts






35. What is current emphasis on for a Letter?






36. E.g. 'most important'






37. Introduction - list of materials - actual steps - warnings - cautions - and notes - conclusion when necessary






38. What are Pros of Email?






39. What is critical to a message's success?






40. Purpose - findings - conclusion - and recommendations






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






42. 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






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






44. The ____________ of a word are its literal meanings - as defined in a dictionary.






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






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






47. Stages can also be summarized as...






48. 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






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






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







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