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The Business Writing Process

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Formality Considerations






2. What are the activities in the planning stage?






3. Goal and audience






4. What are three levels of Revision?






5. Using short and long sentences strategically






6. 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






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






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






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






10. 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.






11. Correctness






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






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






14. Stages can also be summarized as...






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






16. What are Individual Contexts






17. What are three levels of Editing?






18. 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?






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






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






21. Conciseness






22. What techniques can be used for gathering information?






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






24. How do you Plan the message?






25. 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






26. Sentences can vary in sentence length - word order - loose and periodic sentences






27. What are Pros of Email?






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






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






30. Why Avoid Perfectionism in Drafting?






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






32. 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






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






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






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






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






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






38. E.g. 'most important'






39. When to use Instant Messaging?






40. What is format of most Memos?






41. 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






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






43. What is Indirect Order?






44. Use Initialisms






45. How do you begin the message?

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46. What is the best advice for Drafting?






47. What are Cons of Email?

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48. How do you present information in long messages?






49. Formal






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