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Writing Assignment #1

AVG: 11.14High: 15

Issues with:

-Wordiness-Academic Formats-Awareness of audience (needs, tone)-Specifics on risk reduction

-Conclusions-Memo organization-Awareness of own position in relation to audience

In small groups (3), write the lead for this schoolnewspaper story. Here are the facts:

Kenneth L. Peters, the principal of Beverly Hills HighSchool, announced today that the entire high school

faculty will travel to Sacramento next Thursday for acolloquium in new teaching methods. Among thespeakers will be anthropologist Margaret Mead,college president Dr. Robert Maynard Hutchins, andCalifornia governor Edmund Pat Brown.

There will be no school next Thursday.


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Directrecommendation up front, followed by reasonsEasier to followPreferred approach in business

IndirectMystery story approach reasons and then

conclusionUse for sensitive messages, bias is negative

Message Structure

Macro Issues:Making it easy to understand

Document Design make it easy to see your main points

Structural Signposts make it easy to follow your logic

Effective Paragraphs - develop one idea

Design: High Skim Value

Use Sufficient White SpaceMargins, lists, short blocks of text

Use effective headings/subheadingsDescriptive, parallel, complete

Choose type carefully for emphasis and readabilityDifferentiate headings; use size 12 font for body


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Use Structural Signposts

Introduction has 3 functions:Arouse interest and/or establish relationship

Explain purpose for writing

Give a preview (roadmap)

Body Explain and justify. Provide transitions and

links

Conclusion reinforce main point, give call to

action, or create positive feeling

Use Effective Paragraphs

Every paragraph should have one main

idea

Start with a topic sentence (generalization)

and support it


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I am a leader who challenges people. I bring

ethics and honesty to the group. I know that I am

assertive but can also come off as rigid at times. I

am the one on the team who will look for

another way to solve the problem. I am also a

thinker who can also see the big picture. It is easy

for me to take on different roles as needed. I am

forward thinking and independent. Sometimes I

can be a dreamer. I know my weaknesses and

try to learn from them. These aspects of

leadership also affect my emotions as a leader.

Paragraphs and Signposts

As a rule, an effective paragraph will have 3 things:GeneralizationSupportSignposts

Failing to follow this rule of effective paragraphs will likelypresent several drawbacks for your reader. First, your readerswill not know your main point. Second, your paragraphs willlack development. Finally, your writing will be choppy andincoherent.

Business Writing Examples

Poor example:We believe that the new juice product should be

launched in Denver in the next couple of months ifpossible.

Better example:We recommend that the Breakfast Division launch the

new juice product in Denver by May 1.

Cut the fat from your writing


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Cut the fat from your writing -practice on these sentences by getting rid of unnecessary words

Running offers the single most immediate and beneficial fitness paycheck on the market.

A string quartet played various selections of classical music.

leaving many survivors living in virtual squalor.

Given the fact that there have been death threats on his life.

He was shot in the chest, and then ran away on foot.

this rugged, isolated mountainous region

that the main thrust of the program was offensive.

From his small, cubbyhole office, he oversaw operations

Mount Ranier last experienced an eruption 150 years ago.

He retired at the age of sixty years old.

He retired at the age of sixty years old.

He retired at sixty.

She is devoted to the old traditions of the past.

She is devoted to the old traditions of the past.

She is devoted to tradition.

Shes traditional.

The thing which tended to bring

about the Presidents decision to

resign was the emergency caused by

the sudden collapse of his wife.

Passive Voice

New Orleans was devastated by Katrina

Katrina devastated New Orleans.


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Her life was destroyed by meth.

Meth destroyed her life.

Get rid of these:

It is...

It was...

There are...

There were...

Methamphetamine is a rapidly growing problem inEugene which can now be labeled as an epidemic.

Methamphetamine is a rapidly growing problem inEugene which can now be labeled as an epidemic.

Methamphetamine is epidemic in Eugene.


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Trent & Bramhall, 2011

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To Do

-Work on Writing Assignment #1 rewrite (Due 4A)

-Work on Resume Assignment (Due 4A)

-Continue Project discussions, research

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