When Analyzing the Writing Situation You Should Try to Discover…

Multiple Choice

When analyzing the writing situation you should try to discover…

A) How long the readers have to read the document.
B) What situation or problem has required writing this document.
C) How long the document should be.
D) How long you have to write the document.
Use the following scenario for the next three questions: Because Juanita is the volunteer (meaning unpaid) recruiter for a non-profit with branch offices in six cities, she receives more emails on a daily basis than she could possibly read and still have time for her other duties. When she opens her email every Monday morning she looks over the subject line for each email with the following questions in the back of her mind: "What is this? Do I have to read this? How does it affect me? What will I need to do? What are the main ideas?"
If the email subject heading doesn't answer at least one of these questions, she doesn't open it. Sometimes she misses out on information she should have. But she considers this the writer's problem rather than her own. If these people really want to get their message to her, they are responsible to let her know that there is a legitimate reason to read it. Match the following subject headings with the question that would most likely result in the reaction, "Yes, I need to read this email." Note that some of these email subject lines match more than one question; for instance, she might ask "What is this?" of every email she receives. Select the best possible answer.