My MCM301 Online Quiz No. 1

All of the following guidelines play an important part to make your writing concrete, EXCEPT:
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Include as much specific information as possible.
Use active rather than passive verbs.
Use vivid, image-building words.
Use passive verbs.
All of the following are correct when it comes to writing disappointing news letters EXCEPT:
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Avoid the use of negative words or phrases.
Avoid making suppositions that are not likely to occur
Avoid a meaningless closing.
Avoid a neutral or buffered opening.
A simple sentence that makes a statement or expresses an attitude, opinion, condition, position, or feeling
about the subject. It is called which of the following.
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Speech
Thesis statement
Introduction
Outline
A presenter who speaks too loudly may be perceived as which of the following?
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Bombastic
Aggressive
Insensitive to listeners
All of the given options
While preparing for effective business writing Planning Stage involves all of the following, EXCEPT:
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Choosing appropriate clothes
Considering your reader
Determining the appropriate content
Determining your purpose
Self-confident individuals usually stand more erect than those:
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who lack confidence
who are over-confident
who are submissive
who are arrogant
In written communication active verbs help make sentences more:
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Specific
Concise
Empathetic
All of the given options
What does communication breakdown mean?
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We have been ineffective in communication.
We have been effective in communication.
We have been helpful in communication.
We physically broke communication.
Which one of the following is the most formal type of speech delivery?
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Manuscript
Memorized
Impromptu
Extemporaneous