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The Business Writing Process

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1. What are Pros of Email?






2. What is the best advice for Drafting?






3. What is the general Purpose of a Letter?






4. 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






5. Purpose - findings - conclusion - and recommendations






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






7. What are three levels of Revision?






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






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

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






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






12. Formality Considerations






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






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






15. Using short and long sentences strategically






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






18. What should you know about a Letter?






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






20. 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)






21. Goal and audience






22. Audience's preferences - personal work style - how widely info needs to be distributed etc.






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






24. Conciseness






25. What is format of most Memos?






26. Correctness






27. When to use Instant Messaging?






28. 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






29. When should email NOT be used?






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






31. 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?






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






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






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






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






36. 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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37. Use Initialisms






38. Iitalics - bold type - underlining etc.






39. What are Cons of Email?

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40. Casual






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






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






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






44. Informal






45. What is Direct Order?






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






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






48. 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.






49. How is formatting important?






50. 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







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