University of Foreign Languages and International Studies Chapter 3

DIVISION OF ENGLISH FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES Composing Business

Student’s name: …………………………………………………… Messages
Date of birth: ……………………………………………………….
Fill the gap with a suitable word or phrase. Use textbook as a reference.

Outcome 1: Conduct formal and informal research as you apply Phase 2 of the 3-x-3 writing
process.
(1) Informal Research Methods:
 ____________________________________
 ____________________________________
 ____________________________________
 ____________________________________
 ____________________________________
(2) Formal Research Methods:
 ____________________________________
 ____________________________________
 ____________________________________
 ____________________________________

Outcome 2: Organize information into strategic relationships.

 Two ways to organize information to show relationships:
 (3) ______
 (4) ______
 Two strategies to organize ideas:
 Use the Direct Strategy if the audience (5) ______
 Use the Indirect strategy if the audience (6) ______
 What are direct and indirect patterns like?
 Direct pattern: (7) ______
 Indirect pattern: (8) ______

Outcome 3: Compose the first draft of a message using a variety of sentence types while avoiding
sentence fragments, run-on sentences, and comma splices.
1. Achieve Variety With Four Sentence Types:
 (9) _______(one independent clause): She needs a job.
 (10) _______(two independent clauses): She needs a job, and she must expand her skillset.
 (11) _______(one independent and one dependent clause): Because she needs a job, she
must expand her skillset.
 (12) _______(two independent clauses and one dependent clause): Because she needs a
job, she must expand her skillset; however, she also must begin networking.
2. Three Common Sentence Faults:
 Avoid (13) _______(broken-off parts of sentence).
  E.g.: E-mail seems boring. When compared with Twitter.
 (14) Revision: _________________________________.
 Avoid (15) _______(two independent clauses without coordinating conjunction or
semicolon)
 E.g.: He’s addicted to social media he posts updates constantly.
 (16) Revision: _______________________________________.
 Avoid (17) _______(two clauses joined without proper punctuation)
 E.g.: He prefers a tablet, she prefers her laptop.
 (18) Revision: _____________________________________.
3. Favoring Short Sentences
Sentence Length Comprehension Rate
8 words 100%

(19) _______ 90%

19 words (20) ________

28 words 50%

Outcome 4: Emphasize important ideas, employ the active and passive voice strategically, build
parallelism, and prevent dangling and misplaced modifiers.
 Use (21) ______to Achieve Balance:
E.g.: We focus on money – earning it, investing it, and how to spend it.
(22) Revision: ______________________________________________________.
 Avoid (23) _______:
E.g.: Walking down the street, our sign is easy to see.
(24) Revision: ______________________________________________________.