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The Business Writing Process

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. Introduction; list of equipment and materials; steps for your instructions; warnings - cautions - and notes; conclusion






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






3. Correctness






4. Informal






5. Steps to Successful Writing






6. 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






7. Goal and audience






8. When should email NOT be used?






9. What are three levels of Revision?






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






11. How do you present information in long messages?






12. 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






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






14. How do you present information in message?






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






16. Iitalics - bold type - underlining etc.






17. 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.






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






19. Formality Considerations






20. What is current emphasis on for a Letter?






21. A sentence that is so tangled with structural and grammatical problems that it cannot be repaired - often result from trying to include too many ideas in one sentence.






22. What are the activities in the planning stage?






23. What is a Memorandum?






24. E.g. 'most important'






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






26. Clairty






27. What is the general Purpose of a Letter?






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






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






30. 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)






31. Words and expressions that offend because they make inappropriate assumptions or stereotypes about gender - ethnicity - physical or mental disability - age or sexual orientation.






32. When to use Instant Messaging?






33. 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






34. The attitude a writer expresses toward the subject and his or her readers. May range depending on purpose etc.






35. Are these stages recursive or linear?






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






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






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






39. What are Individual Contexts






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






41. How is formatting important?






42. Stages can also be summarized as...






43. What are three levels of Editing?






44. How do you begin the message?

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






46. What are Pros of Email?






47. Purpose - problem - plan/solution - conclusion






48. Purpose - findings - conclusion - and recommendations






49. 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






50. 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