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The Business Writing Process
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Condenses writing by omitting articles - pronouns - conjunctions - and transitions - e.g. ' Per 5/21 email 12 copies of instruction needed asap'
Telegraphic Style
Eliminates phone tag - saves time - facilitates fast decisions - cheap - provides written record
Subordination
Sentence Type
2. Clairty
Proper Conversation - Personal Pronouns/Contractions - Sentences are Short - Organized - Well Structured;
Business Writing Style
Cliches
Strive for Concreteness - Vigor - Precision - Short sentences and paragraphs
3. Using words like 'most - much - very' with caution - wthout overdoing it.
Procedures
Attractive and Readable Format
Intensifiers
'You Viewpoint'
4. Using short and long sentences strategically
Sentence Length
Biased Language
Characteristics of job-related writing
Be Flexible - Avoid Perfectionism - Keep Going - Keep making progress
5. Informal
Not Confidential - Doesn't Communicate Emotions - Tone of Voice - or Unspoken Communications - Can be Ignored or Delayed
Proper Conversation - Personal Pronouns/Contractions - Sentences are Short - Organized - Well Structured;
Information needed for short report
Recipient's Name and Introduce Yourself
6. An inoffensive substitute for a word or phrase that could be distasteful - offensive - or too blunt.
Denotaion
Figures of Speech
Cliches
Euphemismss
7. What are three levels of Editing?
Conciseness - Clarity - Etiquette - Correctness
Represent writer and topic formally to recipient. Correspondence with People Outside the your organization.
Visualize Readers - Keep their interests in mind - List Pertinent Facts - Brainstorming - Diagrams
Revision - Editing - Proofreading
8. Provide practical information - give facts not impressions - provide visuals to clarify and condense information - give accurate measurements - state responsibilities precisely - persuade and offer recommendations -
Past Correspondence - Employees - Records - Warranties - Product Descriptions - Survey - Interviews
Strive for Concreteness - Vigor - Precision - Short sentences and paragraphs
Rules for writing instructions
Characteristics of job-related writing
9. Etiquette
Goal of a letter of application
NO offensive or abusive emails should be sent - and no upper case - as that is considered SCREAMING
Coherent writing
Long - Complicated - Requires Negotiation - Questions/Info need clarification/discussion - Info Confidential/Sensitive - Requires Security - Could be Misinterpreted - Emotionally Charged - Requires Tone of Voice - Sent to Avoid - Contains Sensitive I
10. Use Initialisms
Garbled Sentences
Goal of a letter of application
Biased Language
Cautiously i.e. BTW: by the way
11. The relationships among ideas are clear to readers. A logical sequence of related ideas and clear transitions between these ideas.
Coherent writing
Ethics in Business Writing
Emphasis
Revision - Editing - Proofreading
12. What are Pros of Email?
Figures of Speech
Ethics in Business Writing
Attractive and Readable Format
Eliminates phone tag - saves time - facilitates fast decisions - cheap - provides written record
13. Casual
Long Dashes
Figures of Speech
Repetition
Slang; Colloquialisms - Contractions - Short Sentences - for close friends only
14. Stages can also be summarized as...
Garbled Sentences
Buzz Words
Affectation
What do you want to say - Say It - Say it Better
15. 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
Telegraphic Style
Characteristics of job-related writing
Rules for writing instructions
Purpose - Format - Composition
16. Repeating keywords and key phrases
Figures of Speech
Affectation
Repetition
Date - To - From - Subject Headings
17. Introduction - list of materials - actual steps - warnings - cautions - and notes - conclusion when necessary
Revision of content - Organization - Formatting
Purpose - Format - Composition
Cliches
Main parts of instructions
18. Plan what you are going to say - polish what you wrote before you sent it - proofread everything
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19. Goal and audience
Direct Statements
Get Feedback From Others!
Main parts of a set of instructions
Things to think through when planning a website
20. How to end an email
Your Name - Closing Statement such as Thanks - Regards in more formal messages
Outlining
Characteristics of job-related writing
Emphasis
21. Formality Considerations
Casual - Informal - or Formal
Write Correctly so others will not think you are stupid or lack credibility
Eliminates phone tag - saves time - facilitates fast decisions - cheap - provides written record
Outlining
22. An imaginative expression that often compares two things that are basically not alike but have at least one thing in common.
Emphasis
Conciseness
Figures of Speech
Sentence Variety
23. What are the activities in the planning stage?
Strategy and Humanness
Casual - Informal - or Formal
Gathering and Collecting Information - Analyzing and Organizing Information - Choosing the Form - Channel - and Format of the Message
Idioms
24. Used to show - by the structure of a sentence - the appropriate relationship between ideas of unequal importance.
Recipient's Name and Introduce Yourself
Subordination
'You Viewpoint'
Visualize Readers - Keep their interests in mind - List Pertinent Facts - Brainstorming - Diagrams
25. Sentences can vary in sentence length - word order - loose and periodic sentences
Stress Brevity - uses abbreviations - Convey ideas completely - minimal need for response - Telephone message - but in writing.
Position
Past Correspondence - Employees - Records - Warranties - Product Descriptions - Survey - Interviews
Sentence Variety
26. 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.
Outlining
Procedures
Slang; Colloquialisms - Contractions - Short Sentences - for close friends only
Use Direct Pattern if positive - Use Indirect Pattern if neutral or negative; State Objective - ALWAYS Consider Audience and Purpose
27. Tell and show how to do something
Characteristics of job-related writing
Goal of a letter of application
Instructions
Sentence Variety
28. To emphasize the performer of an action: make the performer the subject of the verb
Information the reader will want - put it first.
Cut out nonessentials - Minimize references to Previous Communications
Date - To - From - Subject Headings
Active Voice
29. What are Cons of Email?
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30. Purpose - problem - plan/solution - conclusion
Main parts of internal proposals
Get Feedback From Others!
Ethics in Business Writing
Coherent writing
31. Varying sentences by using a compound sentence - a complex sentence - or a simple sentence
Goal of a letter of application
Characteristics of job-related writing
Sentence Type
Key draft questions
32. Concern policies and regulations found in employee handbooks and other internal corporate communications
Organizational - Professional - Personal
Procedures
Helps include all important information; Makes you more willing to revise
Casual - Informal - or Formal
33. Correctness
Define the Problem - Consider the Audience and their Individual Contexts - Consider your own Contexts - Best Way to Achieve message;
Active Voice
Sentence Variety
Write Correctly so others will not think you are stupid or lack credibility
34. Provide practical info - give facts - not impressions - provide visuals to clarify - give accurate measurements - stating responsibility precisely - persuading and offering recommendations
Characteristics of job-related writing
Internal Letters. Sometimes classified as Reports
Climatic Order
'You Viewpoint'
35. To set you apart from the others; show that you have customized your resume for that company/job opening
Sentence Type
Goal of a letter of application
Wordiness
Information needed for short report
36. What is current emphasis on for a Letter?
Rules for writing instructions
Strategy and Humanness
Mechanical Devices
Outlining
37. 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?
Cliches
Key draft questions
Past Correspondence - Employees - Records - Warranties - Product Descriptions - Survey - Interviews
Outlining
38. What is important in the Revising stage?
Short report
Get Feedback From Others!
Write Correctly so others will not think you are stupid or lack credibility
Use Direct Pattern if positive - Use Indirect Pattern if neutral or negative; State Objective - ALWAYS Consider Audience and Purpose
39. 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
Wordiness
Direct Statements
Internal Letters. Sometimes classified as Reports
Procedures
40. What is critical to a message's success?
Connotation
Telegraphic Style
Attractive and Readable Format
Your Name - Closing Statement such as Thanks - Regards in more formal messages
41. Steps to Successful Writing
Buzz Words
Preparation - Research - Organization - Writing - Revision
Telegraphic Style
Represent writer and topic formally to recipient. Correspondence with People Outside the your organization.
42. Are these stages recursive or linear?
Past Correspondence - Employees - Records - Warranties - Product Descriptions - Survey - Interviews
Casual - Informal - or Formal
Recursive
Strive for Concreteness - Vigor - Precision - Short sentences and paragraphs
43. An organized presentation of relevant data on any topic that a company or agency tracks in its day-to-day operations
Rules for writing instructions
Short report
Information the reader will want - put it first.
Denotaion
44. 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
Subordination
Position
Connotation
Cautiously i.e. BTW: by the way
45. Letters - memos - email - instant messages - telephone calls - Faxes - Face-to-face meetings - video conferences - web sites
'You Viewpoint'
Denotaion
Mechanical Devices
Examples of medium s of business communication
46. General ideas - qualities - conditions - acts or relationships-intangible things that cannot be detected by the five senses
Abstract words
Past Correspondence - Employees - Records - Warranties - Product Descriptions - Survey - Interviews
Business Writing Style
Cautiously i.e. BTW: by the way
47. How do you present information in message?
Four keys to effective writing
Most Important Information First - and then Descending Order
Coherent writing
NO offensive or abusive emails should be sent - and no upper case - as that is considered SCREAMING
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
Buzz Words
Instructions
Three P's for success in writing a memo
Cautiously i.e. BTW: by the way
49. What are three levels of Revision?
Ethics in Business Writing
NO offensive or abusive emails should be sent - and no upper case - as that is considered SCREAMING
Revision of content - Organization - Formatting
Strive for Concreteness - Vigor - Precision - Short sentences and paragraphs
50. 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)
Four keys to effective writing
It is integral in how your audience will receive and accept the information.
Three P's for success in writing a memo
Procedures
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