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The Business Writing Process

Instructions:
  • 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. What is a Memorandum?






2. What are three levels of Revision?






3. How to end an email






4. 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


5. When should email NOT be used?






6. How is formatting important?






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






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






9. What is format of most Memos?






10. What should you know about a Letter?






11. What is the best advice for Drafting?






12. How do you begin the message?


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. 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.






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






16. What techniques can be used for gathering information?






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






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


19. Purpose - problem - plan/solution - conclusion






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






21. Correctness






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






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






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






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






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






27. Purpose - findings - conclusion - and recommendations






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. Why Avoid Perfectionism in Drafting?






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






31. Casual






32. Clairty






33. Goal and audience






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






35. How do you present information in long messages?






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






37. E.g. 'most important'






38. 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






39. 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






40. When to use Instant Messaging?






41. What are Pros of Email?






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






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






44. What are the activities in the planning stage?






45. Steps to Successful Writing






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






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






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






49. Using short and long sentences strategically






50. Are these stages recursive or linear?