Exam 7: Organizing Your Information

Which organizational pattern works best when readers want to get to key information as soon as possible?

Of the options below, which is the most effective way to explain the major changes and details of a new workplace policy for requesting vacation time?

Chapter 7 explains that one challenge in using the cause-and-effect organizational pattern is that it is very difficult to prove a causal relationship between two factors.

In describing your company's product, you should not compare it with a competitor's product because the competitor will sue your company for misrepresentation.

Your supervisor has asked you to write a brief description of an abandoned silver mine that is slated for hazardous-waste cleanup. Of the organizational patterns discussed in Chapter 7, which would be most logical and effective for describing the mine?

It is often helpful to use more than one basis of classification or partition simultaneously when using that pattern to write a passage.

Which factor should influence the organizational pattern you choose?

Which organizational pattern often occurs in a comparison-and-contrast discussion?

For a report on the nutritional value of fast food, a writer has decided to organize her information by assigning fast-food items to categories. Which of the following sets of categories is flawed?

According to Chapter 7, one benefit of using a conventional pattern to organize technical information is that the pattern serves as a template or checklist, helping you remember what information to include. What is the main benefit for your readers, according to the chapter?

Of the options listed below, which is the most effective way to organize a document explaining which of three different trucks your company ought to buy for its fleet?

Of the options below, which is the most effective way to explain the operation of each major component of a piece of machinery?

It is always unethical to compare your company's product with a similar product offered by another company when trying to argue that your own company's product is superior.

Chapter 7 gives three guidelines for organizing information spatially. One is to provide signposts. What are the other two?

In what situation do graphics benefit your reader?

Of the options listed below, which is the most effective way to organize a document describing the events that led to an Internet company's bankruptcy?

Using signposts such as above, below, or in the center can help readers follow passages written according to the spatial pattern of organization.

A proposal routinely makes use of which organizational pattern?

Of the options below, which is the most effective way to organize a discussion highlighting the most important events in your company's 31-year history?

Which of the following is NOT a guideline for using the comparison-and-contrast pattern of organization?