Exam 4: Planning, Composing, and Revising

The planning, writing, revising, and editing stages of the writing process can be intermixed rather than take place in a prescribed order. Write an example that shows these stages being intermixed.

Describe the two main kinds of jargon, and explain whether they should be used in business writing.

Which of the following guidelines should be followed while editing a document?

Which of the following is true of passive voice in a sentence?

Write a short paragraph in which you start a sentence with "and" or "but" in an effective way.

What should you look for when you are revising a document you have written?

"Never have a sentence with more than 20 words, or a paragraph with more than 8 lines." Explain why this statement is considered a half-truth in business writing.

Which of the following sentences uses a transition word?

To change from passive voice to active voice, you must make the agent the new subject.

Which of the following guidelines should you follow while choosing a level of formality for a business document?

Which of the following illustrates a simple sentence?

Do you think brainstorming, freewriting, or clustering is the most effective way to overcome writer's block? Support your answer with at least two reasons.

Karen is a writer for a magazine. Whenever she is unable to come up with an idea for an article, she writes without stopping for ten minutes or so, even if the writing is irrelevant to what she needs. She repeats this process at least three times. In this scenario, Karen is relying on the process of clustering to generate ideas.

Ming, a communications manager at an environmental organization, recently used a certain technique to develop ideas for a campaign. She jotted down the topic name at the center of a sheet of paper and drew a circle around it. She then wrote down all the ideas that came to mind and circled them too. When this was done, she used colors to highlight and separate groups of related ideas. Which of the following techniques did Ming most likely use to generate her ideas?

Which of the following correctly differentiates between editing and revising?

Which of the following is an advantage of using boilerplate while writing business documents?

Adele, a customer executive at a travel agency, is writing a report titled "Creative Strategies to Increase Client Base." She has already gathered the information she needs and restated the information in her own words using a different format and structure from the original. She has also shared her report with a colleague and has incorporated his suggestions. Now, Adele is ensuring that her report does not have any typographical or formatting errors. Which activity of the composing process is Adele currently doing?

"Pound" means a unit of weight. This meaning represents the ________ of the word.

Which of the following is an accurate statement about the style used for traditional term papers?

A written paragraph is said to have unity when