Business Communication 2 Week Two, Session Two Organizing and Writing
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Objectives • Learn new methods to organize your research and ideas before writing • • Think about the best way to structure your ideas in the report • • Discuss findings and analysis
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Enhances the _______ of the re
Good Organization
Strengthens _________ BCOMM TWO – October 2009
_______, then write…
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Ideas Circle
ISSUE #4
ISSUE #3
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ISSUE #1
ISSUE #2
Outline A. Issue #1
______________ _____________
Now you’re ready to write…
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How can you arrange your ideas?
• You could organize by: –Significance –Time –Space –Scale BCOMM TWO – October 2009
Relative Significance
What matters the ______
What must also be considered
What can be ________
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Organizing by space
Far
Closer
Close
No As Close
Close
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Far
Time Then
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______ Future
Scale
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Now that you have a general pattern, let’s get specific…
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What comes after the main issue?
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Describe the Findings… By a ratio of nearly four-to-one, adults in this country [USA] say that American parents are placing too little (56%) rather than too much (15%) pressure on students, with the remaining quarter (24%) saying that parents are exerting the right amount of pressure (Mike, R. & Horowitz, J.M.).
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Describe the Findings… Roughly six-in-ten Japanese (59%) say all this pressure is too much, while 30% feel the demands are about right. Only 9% say students need more parental pressure -- a figure that stands in stark contrast to the 56% of Americans who feel this way about students here (Mike, R. & Horowitz, J.M.).
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Show the findings…
Figure 1: Parental Pressure: International Comparisons BCOMM TWO – October 2009
Showing the findings… Graphs and illustrations can be included in the body or the appendix
Three main charts:
Pie : Bar : Line:
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Analyze the Findings What is analysis?
How does it differ from the findings?
What should you analyze?
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Back to the findings… Roughly six-in-ten Japanese (59%) say all this [parental] pressure is too much, while 30% feel the demands are about right.
Only 9% say students need more parental pressure -- a figure that stands in stark contrast to the 56% of Americans who feel this way about students here [USA] (Mike, R. & Horowitz, J.M.).
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Analysis… How can we analyze this?
-Previous Knowledge
-Logical Reasoning
-Break it Down
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A note on language…
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Active Action Always Strive to do something, not be of something (use ______, not ______)
You should evaluate, not provide an evaluation of…
The report should analyze, not be an analysis of…
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Be Concise Don’t use a long word where a short one will work
Omit needless words
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Avoid repetition
Finish early so you have time to check for spelling and grammar mistakes….
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