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The Business Writing Process

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1. How do you Plan the message?






2. When should email NOT be used?






3. What are the activities in the planning stage?






4. Use Initialisms






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






6. 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






7. What are Cons of Email?

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8. 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






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






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






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






12. What are three levels of Revision?






13. What is important in the Revising stage?






14. What is current emphasis on for a Letter?






15. Conciseness






16. 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






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






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






19. Using short and long sentences strategically






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






21. Iitalics - bold type - underlining etc.






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






23. 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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24. What is critical to a message's success?






25. 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.






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






27. Are these stages recursive or linear?






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






29. Repeating keywords and key phrases






30. What is the best advice for Drafting?






31. What is the general Purpose of a Letter?






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. Tell and show how to do something






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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?






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






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






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

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






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






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






46. Etiquette






47. Formality Considerations






48. 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






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






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