Writing Correspondence
If you are writing to people outside or within your organization, you would use this level of formality.
What is Formal?
This font size is recommended for all professional correspondence.
What is 12 point font?
This type of graph displays information as a series of data points connected together in sequence.
What is a line graph?
Group(s) of people that you identify, educate and activate to influence the primary audience.
What is a secondary audience?
This is the first page of a resume that greets the reader and informs them of the position you are applying for.
What is a cover letter?
This method of scorching a reader with scathing criticism, which is usually sent in response to something a person wrote in a previous message, is highly not recommended.
What is to flame?
This is the recommended font style for MLA format.
What is Times New Roman?
This type of graph is a circle divided into sectors, each of which represents a proportion of the whole.
What is a pie chart?
A task performed by technical writers in a projects early stage, consists of assessing the audience.
What is audience analysis?
These attributes are required to perform a job and are generally demonstrated through qualifying service, education, or training.
What are KSAs?
This type of correspondence is usually used within a company, rather than outside of the company.
What is a memo?
This is the line spacing for MLA format.
What is double spaced?
This is a diagram, picture, or drawing that shows the components of an object slightly separated by distance, or suspended in a 3D space.
What is exploded view?
These are variables used to identify who your audience is.
What are cultural variables?
This is what a person gains while working in a specific field or occupation.
What is work experience?
This mechanism of shortening words or combining multiple words is considered to be informal and should be avoided when writing professional correspondence.
What are contractions?
This is the order of the way the date is written in MLA format.
What is Day, Month, Year?
This type of graph shows how various quantities deviate from the norm.
What is a deviation bar graph?
This is one of the four general ways to seek out audience information, based upon the way the audience presents themselves physically.
What is observation?
This refers to all of the education you have undergone, which you should include in a resume.
What is educational background?
Before you send any correspondence, you must begin with this step.
What is planning?
This reference method is used when writing psychological research.
What is the American Psychological Association (APA) format?
This type of graph shows the change in quantities of several items over time.
What is a stratum bar graph?
This is the decision-maker and/or decision-making body.
What is a primary audience?
This adds emphasis to specific words and headings in a resume.
What is font size and bolding?