Professional Writing Final Reflection

By: Joseph Gibbons

Functional Outline

• News/What? – The first step is to decide what you are going to write about.

• Reason/Why? – The second step is decide why you are writing what you are.

• Details/How? – The third step is explaining what your message is to your audience.

• Closing/Now What? – The last step is to sum everything up to your audience and let them know if they need to take action.

5 C’s

• Clear – Your message needs to be clear to the audience.

• Concise – Your message need to be concise and to the point.

• Complete – Your message needs to be complete and understandable.

• Correct – Your message needs to be delivered with correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc.

• Courteous – Your message needs to be courteous to the audience and not offensive.

Chapter 5: Business Writing Documents and Elements

• There are many types of reports, some of them are: feasibility reports, incident reports, investigative reports, progress reports, and activity reports.

• Proposals – Persuasive document that shows benefits of a proposed project.

• Titles – Name of report, proposal, or document.• Trip reports – Report of a business trip and its accomplishments.

Chapter 8: Presentations and Meetings

• Listening – If you use effective listening you can help understand a meeting or presentation properly.

• Meetings – These allow people, in person or virtually, to get together at a certain time and share information along with other things to make important decisions.

• Minutes of meetings – These are the official records of a meeting, these are good to have so there is no confusion about what happened during a meeting.

• Presentations – Are used in meetings or by themselves to get a point across to your colleagues in a clear and concise way.

Relationship Marketing with Email Newsletters

• E-mail – Can be used to help create and maintain relationships with customers and colleagues in the business world.

• Newsletters – Can be used to periodically update your customers about new products, promotions, or events that are coming up in your business.

Chapter 2: Workplace Technology and Project Management

• Blogs – A journal that is on the web that a person or group can post.

• FAQs – Frequently Asked Questions.• Repurposing – The converting or copying

content that exists, such as writing or pictures, for another purpose.

• Social Media – Things on the internet that allow people to communicate as a group or community.

• New Technology – New technology is all around us and is changing the way we do business and communicate in the world.

Conclusion1. I have learned since the midterm reflection how to create a new

program proposal, how to create newsletters, and how to construct proper pieces of writing used in business.

2. I have learned these things through the several weeks that I spent working on my new program proposal, through the module lessons, and the readings in our text book.

3. This learning is important because without it I will not be able to communicate in a proper and professional way in business.

4. With what I have learned in this class, I can apply it to my major which is Business Management. Once I graduate I intend on getting a job in the field of business, and what I have learned is essential in today’s business world. From ways to write properly to using new forms of technology to communicate, this class has taught me a lot and will continue to help along my way through business.

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