ACC 100 Lecture 5: CMN124 Notes
5 Dec 2016
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What type of writing: discourse community. Steps in the writing process: planning, pre-writing, organizing and creating an outline, drafting, revising and editing. Purpose: in business, you may communicate to. Scope: length, level of detail, format. How will they respond? (positive or negative?) Content generation: brainstorming, mapping/clustering, asking questions, primary research, secondary research. Organizing and outlining: sequential (step-by-step, chronological, general to specific, cause and effect, theme. Outline: shows how to arrange ideas. Overcoming writers block: start early, plan, use a computer, talk it out, skip around, revise later, take breaks, limit distractions, practice freewriting, adopt a positive attitude. Writing under pressure: budget your time, plan the structure, remember your reader, start with the easy parts and revise later-or not! Revising and editing: print the draft out, read slowly, read the draft aloud, change onscreen font size or type, make multiple passes, remember your reader. Three steps: edit for completeness, tighten up structure, proofread for. Take a turn and pass it on.
