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The Business Writing Process

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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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 Indirect Order?






2. What are Cons of Email?

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3. 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.






4. What should you know about a Letter?






5. What is the general Purpose of a Letter?






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






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






8. How do you present information in long messages?






9. 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.






10. 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






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






12. What is current emphasis on for a Letter?






13. How do you begin the message?

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14. What are the activities in the planning stage?






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






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

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






18. 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






19. How to end an email






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






21. General considerations with Email Messages






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






23. Casual






24. 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






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






26. Informal






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






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






29. Using short and long sentences strategically






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






31. What is a Memorandum?






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






33. When to use Instant Messaging?






34. What are Pros of Email?






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






36. 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






37. 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






38. How is formatting important?






39. What is format of most Memos?






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






41. Are these stages recursive or linear?






42. Steps to Successful Writing






43. 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






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






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






46. Conciseness






47. How do you present information in message?






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






49. Repeating keywords and key phrases






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