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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. How do you Plan the message?






2. Goal and audience






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






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






5. How is formatting important?






6. What is Direct Order?






7. General considerations with Email Messages






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






9. Conciseness






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






11. 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






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






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






14. 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






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


16. 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.






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






18. Clairty






19. How do you begin the message?


20. What should you know about a Letter?






21. The ___________ of a word are its meanings and associations beyond its literal definitions - words often have particular connotations for audiences within professional groups and organizations






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






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






24. What are Individual Contexts






25. Identifying your audience - Establishing your purpose - Formulating your message - and Selecting your style (how something is written rather than what is written) and tone (expresses your attitude toward your topic and audience)






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






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






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






30. What are the activities in the planning stage?






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






32. What is current emphasis on for a Letter?






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






34. Tell and show how to do something






35. Use Initialisms






36. Correctness






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






38. What is the best advice for Drafting?






39. What is important in the Revising stage?






40. Purpose - findings - conclusion - and recommendations






41. Repeating keywords and key phrases






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






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






44. 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


45. Why Avoid Perfectionism in Drafting?






46. 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






47. Purpose - problem - plan/solution - conclusion






48. What are Cons of Email?


49. 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.






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