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Professional Writing
Correspondence
Job Applications
Document Design
Recommendation Report
100
Language used for the purpose of persuasion.
What is rhetoric?
100
The genre used for a document sent to another member of your organization.
What is a memo?
100
The piece of information that should be the boldest, catchiest thing on your resume.
What is my name?
100
Visuals that attempt to enhance the tone or the "look" of the document.
What are aesthetic visuals?
100
The documents that you are required to hand in along with your recommendation report.
What are the group member and self evaluations?
200
The reader's perception of the writer's attitude towards the subject and/or reader.
What is tone?
200
The proper type of formatting used for a professional letter
What is block formatting?
200
What we call the reader who glances quickly through an application.
What is a "scanner" or "skimmer"?
200
The style of font best used for headings because it stands out.
What is sans serif font?
200
The section of the report in which you detail the research you've performed.
What is the Methods/Scope section?
300
The three-hyphenated compounds that make up professional writing.
What are audience-centered, action-oriented, and information-based?
300
The four lines that must be at the top of a memo.
What are To:, From:, Date:, and Subject:?
300
The specific type of sentence at the beginning of each body paragraph in the cover letter (not "topic sentence"!).
What is an "assertion" sentence?
300
What is the best visual to use if you need to display a breakdown of percentages?
What is a pie chart?
300
The style of writing used in the Solutions section.
What is informative writing?
400
What we call the crucial data that absolutely must be in every professional document.
What is essential information?
400
The type of letter used to report a problem.
What is a letter of complaint (or "claim letter")?
400
A resume organized around a set of qualities and skills, rather than dates.
What is a "functional" resume?
400
What every visual in your document should have.
What is a title?
400
The one criterion that every single organization will want to know about each of your solutions?
What is cost?
500
A style or type of writing defined by conventional use.
What is genre?
500
The man who wrote the memo to Frank Bannion, the mailroom manager.
Who is Bob Haskins?
500
Use this method of listing your experience on your resume if you have a lot to say.
What is "short paragraph"?
500
This font should never be used because it is the default font in MS Word.
What is Times New Roman or Calibri or Cambria?
500
The three required elements of front matter.
What are the title page, the table of contents, and the executive summary?