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Completing
Business
Messages

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Business Communicat

Chapter 6 - 1

Three-Step Writing
Process
Step 1
Planning

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Step 2
Writing

Step 3

Completing

Analyze

Organize

Revise

Investigate

Select

Produce

Adapt

Compose

Proofread


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Moving Past the First
Draft
Content, Style, Tone
and Organization

First
Draft

Overall
Readability

Final
Report

Mechanics
and Format


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Starting the Process
of Revision

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Content

Organization

Style

Tone
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Reviewing for
Readability
Sentences
Paragraphs
Listed Items
Headings
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Editing for Clarity
Long Sentences
Hedging Sentences
Faulty Parallelism
Dangling Modifiers

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Editing for Clarity
Long Noun Sequences
Camouflaged Verbs
Sentence Structure
Awkward References
Excess Enthusiasm
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Focusing on
Conciseness

Wordy Constructions
Long Words or Phrases
Redundancies
“It is/There are” Starters
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Revising
With Technology

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Revision
Tools

Spell
Checker


Thesaurus

Grammar
Checker

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Graphics
Graphics Software
Software

Graphics, Sound
and Hypertext

Presentation
Presentation Software
Software


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Document Design
Consistency
Balance
Detail
Restraint
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Design
Elements


White Space
Headings
and Captions
Margins
Typefaces
Type Styles

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Professional Image
Word
Processing
Desktop
Publishing
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Proofreading the Message
Grammar, Usage
and Punctuation
Spelling Errors
and Typos

Edited
Copy

Missing Material

Final
Report

Design Errors


Overall Format

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Distributing the Message

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Photocopy
Machine

Print Shop

Mail Merge

Broadcast
Faxing

Computer Disk
and CD-ROM

The Internet

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