Exam 11: Preparing and Writing Reports

The letter or memo of transmittal for a report contains a brief statement of the general purpose of the report.

Which of the following practices should be avoided when preparing the minutes of a meeting?

A feasibility study is designed to persuade the reader to purchase your products or services, to adopt your idea or plan, or to provide or donate money or services for a worthwhile project.

Which of the following practices is best avoided when preparing a business report?

In the context of documenting sources of information, _____ uses consecutive raised numbers to identify quoted or paraphrased ideas throughout a report.

Which of the following practices should be followed when writing an informal report?

A person collecting data from periodicals, company reports, almanacs, and yearbooks is said to be using _____ sources of information.

In preparing a good manuscript for a business report, which of the following practices should be avoided?

Which of the following sections of a formal report tells the reader why the report was written, what its scope is, and how the data were gathered?

In a report, when you want to visually display the relationships between parts and a whole, you should use a:

A(n) _____ is an analytical report that is designed to persuade the reader to purchase your products or services, to adopt your idea or plan, or to provide or donate money or services for a worthwhile project.

A news release form usually contains the name, address, and telephone number of the person responsible for issuing the release to the public.

Writing the tentative headline of a news release in all-capital letters is not a good way to identify the story.

An analytical report examines a situation or problem, draws conclusions, and makes recommendations, in addition to providing information and data.

One disadvantage of using the table form for informal reports is that the reader cannot see the total situation at a glance, and has to read a lot of words.

A preliminary list of reference sources for a report is called the working _____.

Define primary sources and secondary sources. Where do you obtain primary source data? Where are secondary sources found?

Which of the following is NOT a type of an analytical report?

A quorum is a brief chronological list of the business to be transacted at a business meeting and acts as a guide to the person presiding at the meeting.

Explain the three basic forms of presentation that are used in written reports.