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Prentice Hall , 2003

Business Communicat ion Today

Chapter 6 - 1

Completing

Business

Messages

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Chapter 6 - 2

Three-Step Writing

Process

Step 1

Planning

Step 3

Completing

Step 2

Writing

Analyze

Investigate

Adapt

Organize

Select

Compose

Revise

Produce

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Chapter 6 - 3

Moving Past the First

Draft

Final Report Final Report First Draft First Draft

Content, Style, Tone and Organization

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Chapter 6 - 4

Starting the Process

of Revision

Content

Style

Organization

Tone

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Reviewing for

Readability

Sentences

Headings

Listed Items

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Editing for Clarity

Long Sentences

Hedging Sentences

Faulty Parallelism

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Editing for Clarity

Long Noun Sequences

Camouflaged Verbs

Sentence Structure

Awkward References

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Chapter 6 - 8

Focusing on

Conciseness

Wordy Constructions

Long Words or Phrases

Redundancies

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Revision

Tools

Spell

Checker

Thesaurus

Grammar

Checker

Revising

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Chapter 6 - 10

Graphics Software

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Presentation Software

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Graphics, Sound

and Hypertext

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Chapter 6 - 11

Document Design

Consistency

Balance

Detail

Restraint

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Chapter 6 - 12

Design

Elements

White Space

Margins

Typefaces

Type Styles

Headings

and Captions

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Chapter 6 - 13

Professional Image

Word

Processing

Desktop

Publishing

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Chapter 6 - 14

Proofreading the Message

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Chapter 6 - 15

Distributing the Message

Photocopy

Machine

Computer Disk

and CD-ROM

Mail Merge

Print Shop

The Internet

Broadcast

Faxing