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The Business Writing Process

Instructions:
  • 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. What are Individual Contexts






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






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






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






5. What is Indirect Order?






6. How is formatting important?






7. What is Direct Order?






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






9. 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






10. 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?






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






12. General considerations with Email Messages






13. How do you know what to include in your 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 are Pros of Email?






17. What are the activities in the planning stage?






18. Casual






19. What are Cons of Email?

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20. Goal and audience






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






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






23. How do you present information in long messages?






24. Etiquette






25. Informal






26. What is the best advice for Drafting?






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






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






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






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






31. 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






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






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






34. Use Initialisms






35. How to end an email






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






37. 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






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






39. 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






40. How do you begin the message?

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41. Clairty






42. When to use Instant Messaging?






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






44. Tell and show how to do something






45. 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.






46. Are these stages recursive or linear?






47. Iitalics - bold type - underlining etc.






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

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49. How do you present information in message?






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