Chapter 3

To avoid frustration and inaccurate messages, we need to collect information that answers these questions. Which are unnecessary questions to answer:

• A. What does the receiver need to know about this topic?

• B. What is the recipient doing?

• C. What is the receiver to do?

• D. What will happen if the receiver doesn't do it?

What is the last step of Composing Paragraph?

• A. Developing Support Sentence

• B. Controlling Paragraph Length

• C. Crafting Topic Sentence

• D. Building Paragraph Coherence

Find the sentence which achieves parallelism:

• A. The policy affected all vendors, suppliers, and those involved with consulting.

• B. The policy affected all vendors, suppliers, and consultants.

Find the sentence which achieves parallelism:

• A. Our primary goals are to increase

  productivity, reduce costs, and the

  improvement of product quality.

• B. Our primary goals are to increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve product quality.

Our Super Bowl ads have three

objectives:

1. We want to increase product use.

2. Introduce complementary

products.

3. Our corporate image will be

enhanced.

What technique does the claim above need to improve?

• A. Achieving Parallelism

• B. Avoiding Dangling

• C. De-emphasizing negative news.

Paragraphs are most effective when they contain:

• A. topic sentence

• A. topic sentence

• C. techniques to build coherence

• D. All of them

Which method is not a formal research method?

• A. Search manually

• B. Talk with your boss

• C. Go to the source

• D. Conduct scientific experiments

Which sentence is not the advantage of the direct method?

• A. Save the reader’s time.

• B. Prevent frustration.

• C. Set a proper frame of mind.

• D. Encourage a fair hearing.

Which expression is used to clarify?

• A. accordingly

• B. meanwhile

• C. in other words

• D. on the contrary

How many kinds of expressions to build coherence?

• A. 5

• B. 8

• C. 6

• D. 7