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The Business Writing Process

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1. Steps to Successful Writing






2. Casual






3. What is current emphasis on for a Letter?






4. What should you know about a Letter?






5. How do you Plan the message?






6. A group of words that has a special meaning apart from its literal meaning. Someone who 'runs for office'






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






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. Clairty






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






11. Purpose - problem - plan/solution - conclusion






12. Are these stages recursive or linear?






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






14. 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






15. 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






16. Formality Considerations






17. Repeating keywords and key phrases






18. What is format of most Memos?






19. What are Pros of Email?






20. What is important in the Revising stage?






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






22. Conciseness






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






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






25. How do you present information in long messages?






26. What is a Memorandum?






27. Less formal than in the past - Varies from conversational style - The use of personal pronouns is important - In emails etc. something between conversational & business writing should be used - Only use we when it is company policy






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






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






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






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






32. What are Individual Contexts






33. How do you begin the message?

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






35. Correctness






36. E.g. 'most important'






37. 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






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






39. What is Direct Order?






40. Tell and show how to do something






41. Make sure your e-mail is confidential and ethical - observe all of the proprietary requirements when using e-mail - use an acceptable format- follow all of the rules of 'netiqette' when answering e-mail - adopt a professional style - ensure that yo






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






43. Stages can also be summarized as...






44. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






50. What is the best advice for Drafting?







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