Completing Business Messages

Description

Completing Business Messages

is a lecture which is covered during Business Communication Module. This Lecture is covering the tasks involved in completing a message: revising, producing, proofreading, and distributing messages. It includes advice on evaluating, editing, and revising the work of other writers and on designing messages for mobile devices.

Learning Objectives:

1. Discuss the value of careful revision, and describe the tasks involved in evaluating your first drafts and the work of other writers.
2. List four techniques you can use to improve the readability of your messages.
3. Describe eight steps you can take to improve the clarity of your writing, and give four tips for making your writing more concise.
4. List four principles of effective design, and explain the role of major design elements in document readability.
5. Explain the importance of proofreading, and give eight tips for successful proofreading.
6. Discuss the most important issues to consider when distributing your messages.

Lecture Outline:

1. Revising Your Message: Evaluating the First Draft
   Evaluating Your Content, Organization, Style, and Tone
   Evaluating, Editing, and Revising the Work of Others
2. Revising to Improve Readability
   Varying Your Sentence Length
   Keeping Your Paragraphs Short
   Using Lists to Clarify and Emphasize
   Adding Headings and Subheadings
3. Editing for Clarity and Conciseness
   Editing for Clarity
   Editing for Conciseness
4. Producing Your Message
   Designing for Readability
   White Space
   Margins and Justification
   Typefaces
   Type Styles
   Formatting Formal Letters and Memos
   Designing Messages for Mobile Devices
5. Proofreading Your Message
6. Distributing Your Message

In this file you will find:

• 1 Completing Business Messages Lecture Power Point Presentation
• 1 Guide file how to conduct Lecture
• 1 Test Bank with 100 different questions with full answer description and explanation
• 1 Folder with relevant pictures