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






2. Purpose - findings - conclusion - and recommendations






3. What techniques can be used for gathering information?






4. How do you present information in message?






5. Tell and show how to do something






6. Iitalics - bold type - underlining etc.






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






8. 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






9. Stages can also be summarized as...






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






11. E.g. 'most important'






12. Goal and audience






13. How do you begin the message?


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. What should you know about a Letter?






17. Why Avoid Perfectionism in Drafting?






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






19. What are Pros of Email?






20. 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


21. When to use Instant Messaging?






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






23. Etiquette






24. Use Initialisms






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






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






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






28. 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






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






30. What is the best advice for Drafting?






31. What are the activities in the planning stage?






32. Informal






33. 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.






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






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






36. What is format of most Memos?






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






38. Formal






39. How do you know what to include in your message?






40. Clairty






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






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






43. What is important in the Revising stage?






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


45. What are Individual Contexts






46. How is formatting important?






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






48. How do you Plan the message?






49. 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






50. Are these stages recursive or linear?