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The Business Writing Process

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Concern policies and regulations found in employee handbooks and other internal corporate communications






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






3. Goal and audience






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






5. Stages can also be summarized as...






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






7. Formality Considerations






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






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






10. Clairty






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






12. Iitalics - bold type - underlining etc.






13. What are three levels of Editing?






14. 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






15. Are these stages recursive or linear?






16. What should you know about a Letter?






17. Used to show - by the structure of a sentence - the appropriate relationship between ideas of unequal importance.






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






19. 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

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20. 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






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






22. What is current emphasis on for a Letter?






23. Letters - memos - email - instant messages - telephone calls - Faxes - Face-to-face meetings - video conferences - web sites






24. Correctness






25. Purpose - findings - conclusion - and recommendations






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






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






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






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






30. What is important in the Revising stage?






31. The attitude a writer expresses toward the subject and his or her readers. May range depending on purpose 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. How to end an email






34. What are the activities in the planning stage?






35. What are three levels of Revision?






36. 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






37. How do you begin the message?

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38. Formal






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






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






41. What is a Memorandum?






42. General considerations with Email Messages






43. Using short and long sentences strategically






44. What is format of most Memos?






45. Tell and show how to do something






46. 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?






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






48. 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






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






50. 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.