Midterm reflection
- 1. ENC 3250 Professional Writing: Midterm Reflection By Caleb Boulton 10/13/14
- 2. The 5 C’s • Clear – Every correspondence must inform, request, and persuade. The target audience must be taken into consideration and the message must be organized and conveyed in a way that is easy for readers to understand. • Concise- Determine what information is actually important to your readers and convey that information in simple language. • Complete- In business correspondence, having all of the information is very important. Omissions can have drastic effects on business activities (deadlines, miscommunication, convey unimportance, etc).
- 3. The 5 C’s • Correct- The correspondence needs to have proper formatting, grammar, and punctuation. If it does not, it makes it look unprofessional and takes away credibility. • Courteous- Being polite with your readers is very important, especially with correspondents outside of your company, especially customers. Being polite is also a good way to encourage your readers to do what you are asking of them.
- 4. Chapter 1 • Preparation • Research • Organization • Design, layout and format • Writing • Revising
- 5. Chapter 1 Summary • Chapter 1 mainly dealt with the initial development of your piece. Developing and focusing on the main idea of your correspondence is the central idea of this chapter. I absorbed most of this information through watching the video of chapter one and taking notes and I went along. This information was important because planning how to create your piece is the first step. This information will be extremely useful in learning how to convey messages to future clients during various business activities.
- 6. Chapter 2 • Adapting to new technologies • Strategies for learning a new technologies • Blogs and Forums • Organization use & tips
- 7. Chapter 2 Summary • Chapter 2 focused on various business communications and tools on how to use them effectively. Like chapter 1, I learned most of this chapter primarily through watching the video and taking notes as I listened and watched. The main point that I took away from this section was how to pick the appropriate communication tool for different situations. This chapter also went further and elaborated on how to effectively use those tools. E-mail and memo communication will be used frequently in communicating company-wide and with specific individuals.
- 8. Chapter 4 • Acknowledgments • Complaints • Response • Refusals
- 9. Chapter 4 Summary • Chapter 4 dealt with how to handle different correspondence situations. Different situations call for different means of communication and different messages. For this chapter, I carefully read and took notes, noting the importance of the information. This chapter was important because it offered useful information on how to handle different situations; this was important because handling refusal letters and complaints can be extremely important. Handling such cases professionally is crucial in the business world.
- 10. Chapter 10 • Affectation • Conciseness • Emphasis • Parallel Structure • Transitions
- 11. Chapter 10 Summary • Chapter 10 was a very helpful chapter for me. Though I consider myself an avid reader and writer, I sometimes struggle with the more basic points of writing, such as transitions and parallel structure. I focused heavily on these topics in the chapter and even re-read them several times. These topics were important because I now realize that I struggle in this area but now I can start working towards fixing the problem. This will be useful in future correspondence because it will help to keep my writing professional.
- 12. Chapter 7 • Lists • Graphs • Headings • Layout Designs
- 13. Chapter 7 Summary • Chapter 7 focused on the importance of visuals and how to effectively incorporate them into your works. I learned this from reading and noticing the fact that important information that could be confusing without a visual aid (such as a diagram or graph.) The appropriate visual can make a huge difference to readers who are trying to interpret confusing material. This chapter was helpful to me because I now know when and how to incorporate important visuals like graphs into correspondences.
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