Exam 3: Planning, Composing, and Revising

Where should the topic sentence of your paragraph be located?

Jill is _____ her draft when she rereads it as though someone else had written it to see how it fulfills the requirements of the audience and the situation.

Often you'll get the best revision by not even using your first draft: set it aside, get a blank page or screen, and redraft.

Words that indicate the nature of the connections between ideas and sentences are called ___________.

"It is the case that good communicators advance more quickly in the company." Which of the following would be the best revision of this sentence?

Words that are overused and no longer alive are sometimes called ______________.

Writing intended for the web should formal in tone and style.

When Jacob realizes that his persuasive memo doesn't counteract the most obvious probable objections, he adds two additional paragraphs.What part of the writing process does this activity represent?

Most writers edit more accurately from a printed copy of a document, rather than from a screen.

Good business writing is mimics _____ instead of academic writing, and is less formal today than was traditionally expected.