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The Business Writing Process

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. How do you present information in message?






2. Tell and show how to do something






3. 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)






4. 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






5. Steps to Successful Writing






6. What are Pros of Email?






7. What are Individual Contexts






8. Clairty






9. When should email NOT be used?






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






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






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






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






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






15. Purpose - findings - conclusion - and recommendations






16. 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






17. What is Direct Order?






18. 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






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






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






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






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






23. How is formatting important?






24. What are three levels of Editing?






25. 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.






26. Purpose - problem - plan/solution - conclusion






27. Why Avoid Perfectionism in Drafting?






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






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






30. Stages can also be summarized as...






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






32. How do you Plan the message?






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






34. What are Cons of Email?

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






36. 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.






37. What is the best advice for Drafting?






38. 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?






39. How to end an email






40. Formal






41. Correctness






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






43. Conciseness






44. Using short and long sentences strategically






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






46. Informal






47. 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






48. Formality Considerations






49. How do you present information in long messages?






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