S1_FEB_Business Communication_Genap 2025/2026

Answers my Questions...

1. Explain how to compose the first draft of a message using a variety of sentence types and avoiding sentence fragments, run-on sentences, and comma splices.

2. Explain how to improve your writing techniques by emphasizing important ideas, employing the active and passive voice effectively, using parallelism, and preventing dangling and misplaced modifiers.

3. Explain how to Draft well-organized paragraphs using (a) the direct plan to define,classify, illustrate, or describe; (b) the pivoting plan to compare and contrast; or (c) the indirect plan to explain and persuade. Paragraphs should include (a) topic sentences, (b) support sentences, and (c) transitional expressions to build coherence.

4. Explain how to polish business messages by revising for conciseness, which includes eliminating flabby expressions, long lead-ins, there is/are and it is/was fillers, redundancies, and empty words, as well as condensing for microblogging.

5. Explain how to improve clarity in business messages by keeping the ideas simple, slashing trite business phrases, dropping clichés scrapping slang and buzzwords, rescuing buried verbs, and restraining exuberance.

6. Explain how to recognize proofreading problem areas, and apply effective techniques to catch mistakes in both routine and complex documents.

7. Expalin how to evaluate a message to judge its effectiveness.