Effective Communication Techniques

Before writing a message, you should do which of the following? (Choose every correct answer.)

The kind of words used in everyday conversation are ______ words.

Typically, short words are ______ words.

Which of the following are potentially positive outcomes of using business clichés? (Choose every correct answer.)

Which of the following are benefits of using specialized language? (Choose every correct answer.)

When your message is reader focused, it signifies that you are ______.

Which of the following are the kinds of things that concrete words stand for? (Choose every correct answer.)

According to U.S. government guidelines, a message written in plain language is one that ______.

Nouns that are abstract have ______ meaning.

The use of long words in communication tends to do which of the following? (Choose each correct answer.)

What is the property of a process that is repeated frequently and regularly?

What is the property of a process that is repeated without interruption?

When business clichés are overused, they ______.

When communicating within your field of business, you should avoid using specialized terms and acronyms.

Which of the following are forms of verbs that tend to undercut the energy of your writing? (Choose every correct answer.)

In good business communicators, words should convey which of the following? (Choose every correct answer.)

When you use a dummy subject, the verb comes ______.

Which of the following are examples of concrete words? (Choose every correct answer.)

What is the result of writing sentences in active voice?

Which of the following terms is appropriate to use when referring to a quantity of something that cannot be counted?

Which of the following are circumstances that call for the use of passive voice? (Choose every correct answer.)

The most important part of speech for making lively and engaging writing is the ______.

Avoiding ______ will help reduce the use of 'to be' verbs.

Sentences are more lively when they are written in ______.

Camouflaged verbs are ______.

Passive voice can be useful when you want to deemphasize ______.

When planning to compose a message, your first task will likely be to ______.

Longer sentences are useful for ______.

When you eliminate a camouflaged verb from a sentence, the sentence typically becomes which of the following? (Choose every correct answer.)

Which of the following are true statements about stock phrases? (Choose every correct answer.)

Which of the following strategies can help deal with surplus words? (Choose every correct answer.)

Ideas that are repeated using different words that mean the same thing are called ______.

Which of the following must be considered when deciding how to compose the sentences of a successful message? (Choose every correct answer.)

To be an efficient writer, you should always use as few sentences as possible.

What is a ready-made phrase that you would use without careful thought?

Which of the following are considered to be especially important elements of a message? (Choose every correct answer.)

Words that add nothing to a sentence's meaning are considered ______.

The ______ clause of a sentence expresses the main point of the sentence.

Which of the following are potential benefits of repeating words? (Choose every correct answer.)

When you treat ideas equally in a sentence, you ______ them.

By leaving out supporting information, short sentences ______.

You can convey the importance of the various elements of a sentence by altering its ______.

When you alter the main clause, you necessarily alter a sentence's ______.

Why would you use a short sentence at the beginning or ending of messages? (Choose every correct answer.)

To subordinate ideas in a sentence, you ______.

Which of the following undermine a sentence's unity? (Choose every correct answer.)

Compared to long sentences, short sentences contain ______.

Which of the following are true of the ideas in a sentence? (Choose every correct answer.)

When a sentence contains too much detail, you risk ______.

Mixed construction occurs when you ______.

Which of the following are good applications for short sentences? (Choose every correct answer.)

When you fail to follow through on the expectations for content that you set up early in a sentence, you create ______.

When a sentence has unity, its components ______.

A dangling modifier exists when the modifier ______.

If the ideas in a sentence don't clearly belong together, you should ______.

When a modifier confuses the logic of a sentence, it is considered a ______.

When a detail is important but a sentence contains too many details, you should ______.

What does faulty parallelism fail to do?

What did Della's actions exemplify?

What is an incomplete construction?

Paragraphs help readers mentally organize information by indicating ______.

When you include a modifier that doesn't modify anything in the sentence, you have created a(n) ______.

What did Mr. Tran use in his sentence?

When phrases in a list are not constructed in the same way, a sentence suffers from ______.

The best paragraphs are typically at least seven sentences long.

Which of the following occur when you paragraph strategically? (Choose every correct answer.)

A document made up of long paragraphs is more likely to be ______.

What would be the recommended way to proceed if you have written a paragraph explaining two job procedures?

The criterion you should use for choosing to include any detailed information in a paragraph is if ______.

Which of the following statements are true about writing a paragraph? (Choose every correct answer.)

Compared to body paragraphs, opening paragraphs are typically ______.

If most of the sentences in a paragraph provide a kind of news story, the topic sentence can be considered that story's ______.

Which of the following occur as a result of frequent paragraph breaks? (Choose every correct answer.)

Which of the following are functions that paragraphs serve? (Choose every correct answer.)

When you have reached the fourth sentence of a paragraph but have not exhausted a topic, you should ______.

In terms of the detail you include, your primary goal when constructing a paragraph should be ______.

The main appeal of starting a paragraph with a topic sentence is that it allows the reader to ______.

The concept that every part of a paragraph should concern every other part of the paragraph is called _____.

The main idea of a paragraph is contained in the ______ sentence.

Where does a topic sentence belong?

Where would you put a topic sentence if you wanted to begin with supporting details and lead readers to the conclusion?

What allows the reader to immediately see how all the sentences in a paragraph will be related?

The least common location for a topic sentence is ______.

When a reader is able to move easily and directly through your message, it is considered ______.

The information in a paragraph is tied together with ______.

The second most common location of a topic sentence is ______.

Which method can be used to smoothly transition through related ideas?

Transitional devices can be used not only within paragraphs but also between paragraphs.

Which of the following are demonstrative pronouns? (Choose every correct answer.)

To ensure that a paragraph fulfills a strategic function, ask yourself ______.

Which of the following are commonly used transitional words? (Choose every correct answer.)

To ensure that you are furthering your purpose throughout a document, you should compare what a paragraph ______ and what it does.

Which of the following are common functions of transitional devices between paragraphs? (Choose every correct answer.)

Which of the following are typical characteristics of paragraphs written with a strategic purpose in mind? (Choose every correct answer.)