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The Business Writing Process

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the best advice for Drafting?






2. Casual






3. General considerations with Email Messages






4. Conciseness






5. What are three levels of Revision?






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






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






8. 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.






9. When should email NOT be used?






10. What are the activities in the planning stage?






11. What are Individual Contexts






12. What is a Memorandum?






13. 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.






14. What is important in the Revising stage?






15. Correctness






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






17. 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






18. Are these stages recursive or linear?






19. Clairty






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






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






22. Formality Considerations






23. Repeating keywords and key phrases






24. 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






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






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






27. 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






28. E.g. 'most important'






29. 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






30. Goal and audience






31. How do you begin the message?

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32. What are Cons of Email?

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






34. Stages can also be summarized as...






35. What is Indirect Order?






36. 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






37. The use of language that is more formal - technical - or showy than necessary to communicate information to the reader.






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






39. Tell and show how to do something






40. 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)






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






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






44. How do you Plan the message?






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

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46. What should you know about a Letter?






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






48. What is format of most Memos?






49. Why Avoid Perfectionism in Drafting?






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