Please answer each of the following questions and provide examples from the text, if applicable. Each response should be at least two paragraphs in length composed of five to seven sentences and be written in complete sentences.

1. Explain each phase of the three-step writing process.

A: The three-step writing process includes planning, writing, and completing the business message. Planning includes clarifying the purpose, analyzing the audience, and adapting your message. Writing the message includes organizing your ideas and composing your first draft. Completing the business message involves reviewing the content and organization for overall style, structure, and readability.

2. Briefly explain the difference between the topic of a message and the main idea.

A: The topic of a message is its broad subject, condensed to one idea. In contrast, the main idea is a specific statement about the topic.

3. Briefly explain how the growth of electronic communication has become both a blessing and a curse for business communicators.

4. How can your audience’s level of understanding help you determine the appropriate amount of information to include in a business message?

5. What is the scope of a business message?

6. Why do written communication and most forms of electronic media generally require more tact than oral communication?

7. What is credibility and when is it especially important to establish?

8. List at least three guidelines to follow if you want to achieve a conversational tone in business messages.

9. Explain what it means to choose “words that communicate well,” then list four techniques for selecting the best words when writing business messages.

10. Briefly explain the difference between file merge and mail merge.

PART II

Perform some preliminary research on blogging in business writing. Identify four blogs you find interesting and explain in a two page APA formatted paper about why you selected them. Then, use two additional pages to compare and contrast the writing style in blogs to the writing style discussed and analyzed in this week’s module. Use at least the four blog sources and two APA formatted scholarly sources.

PART III: Journal

Write a two page APA formatted paper in which you review the primary material you learned this week and identify at least two deficiencies in your own writing upon which you can improve. Write how you will accomplish that and what methods you will use to test yourself. Use at least two scholarly sources and reference them in APA format in your paper.