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Writing Business Messages

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Learning Objectives
Being sensitive to audience needs Building strong audience relationships Controlling style and tone Choosing strong words for a message Composing sentences and paragraphs Using technology for messages

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Adapting to Your Audience: Being Sensitive to Audience Needs

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The You Attitude


Speaking and writing for an audience
Wishes Interests Hopes Preferences

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Practice Etiquette
Courtesy
Diplomacy Tactfulness

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Emphasize the Positive


Avoid negativity
Employ euphemisms

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Bias-Free Language
Age
Gender Disability Race or ethnicity

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Adapting to Your Audience: Building Strong Relationships

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Establish Your Credibility


Honesty Awareness Endorsements Confidence Objectivity Expertise Performance Sincerity

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Company Image
Communication style
Communication guidelines

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Adapting to Your Audience: Controlling Style and Tone

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Conversational Tone
Understand texting vs. writing
Avoid pompous language Avoid preaching or bragging Be careful with intimacy or humor

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Plain Language
Straightforward
Understandable Action-oriented

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Using the Right Voice


Active voice (subject-verb-object)
Direct and assertive

Passive voice (subject-verb-object)


Indirect and diplomatic

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Composing Your Message: Choosing Powerful Words

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Powerful Words
Correct
Effective

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Meaning of Words
Connotation
Denotation

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Balancing Words
Concrete
Tangible, objective, visualization

Abstract
Concepts, qualities, characteristics

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Finding Words
Select powerful words
Choose familiar words Avoid clichs and buzzwords Use jargon carefully

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Composing Your Message: Writing Effective Sentences

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Sentence Types
Simple
Compound Complex Compound-complex

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Emphasize Key Ideas


Spacing of words
Placement of words

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Composing Your Message: Crafting Unified, Coherent Paragraphs

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Paragraph Elements
Topic sentence
Support sentences Transitional elements

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Paragraph Options
Illustration
Classification Cause and effect Problem and solution Comparison and contrast

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Using Technology to Compose and Shape Your Messages

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Format with Technology


Style sheets and style sets
Templates and themes Boilerplate and document components Auto-correction and auto-completion File merge and mail merge Endnotes, footnotes, indexes, and TOC
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