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






2. What are Individual Contexts






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






4. 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.






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






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. 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






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






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






10. 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






11. 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.






12. When should email NOT be used?






13. What are the activities in the planning stage?






14. How is formatting important?






15. What is Direct Order?






16. What are Pros of Email?






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






18. 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






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

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20. General considerations with Email Messages






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






22. What is a Memorandum?






23. How do you present information in message?






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






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






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






27. E.g. 'most important'






28. 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






29. What is Indirect Order?






30. 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






31. What is the general Purpose of a Letter?






32. 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






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






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






35. What should you know about a Letter?






36. Purpose - findings - conclusion - and recommendations






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






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






39. Formality Considerations






40. What is current emphasis on for a Letter?






41. How do you present information in long messages?






42. Conciseness






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






44. When to use Instant Messaging?






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






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






47. How do you Plan the message?






48. What are Cons of Email?

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






50. 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?