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4_1 Audience Analysis

Write brief analysis of the audience for each of the following communication tasks:

1. As a soon-to-graduate senior, you are writing a profile that you will post to LinkedIn. You hope it will land you a job offer.

2. As an administrator of your city water department, you must write a letter to water users explaining that the tap water may taste and smell bad; however, it poses no threats to health.

3. You are a member of an organization promoting Earth Day. You have been asked to encourage your office to save paper, and you know of several tips for doing that. You want to persuade your boss to send a message to employees with a number of tips that you will provide.

4. You are about to send an e-mail to your regional sales manager describing your visit to a new customer who is demanding special discounts.

4_2 Plain Language and Familiar Words

YOUR TASK Revise the following sentences to use plain language and familiar words.

1. The attorney tried to obfuscate the issue with extraneous and superfluous data.

2. Civil Service exams were once required for federal government jobs, but they were phased out subsequent to the passage of antidiscrimination laws.

3. To expedite ratification of the agreement, we beseech you to vote in the affirmative.

4. Although the remuneration for the position of social media consultant seems low, it is commensurate with other pay packages for similar positions.

5. Subsequent to the robbery, officials interrogated tellers, but the bank did not implement new procedures.

6. Although researchers dialogued with individual students on campus, subsequent group interviews proved fruitless.

4_3 Most Annoying Business Buzzwords

Business writing is more effective when writers avoid overused jargon or buzzwords that others find annoying, useless, and pretentious. In a recent survey of business professionals, the following phrases ranked at the top as most annoying.

YOUR TASK For each of these words or phrases, write your own definition or be prepared to discuss its use-fulness. Y

1. synergy

2. think outside the box

3. take it offline

4. circle back

5. low-hanging fruit

6. at the end of the day

7. take a deep dive

8. you don't know what you don't know

9. leverage

10. move the needle

Positive and Courteous Expression (L.O. 4)

Revise the following statements to make them more positive and courteous.

a. We regret to announce that we can offer the 50 percent discount only to the first 25 buyers, so act quickly!

b. Construction on your building is at a standstill because the contractor is unable to pour footings until the soil is no longer soggy.

c. A passport cannot be issued until an application is completed and a recent photo is included.

d. Your message of June 1 claims that the blade in your food processor malfunctioned. Although you appar-ently failed to read the operator's manual, we are send-ing you a replacement blade PLUS another manual. Next time read page 18 carefully so that you will know how to attach this blade.

e. Customers are ineligible for the 25 percent discount if they fail to provide the discount code at the time of purchase.

f. As team leader, you apparently failed to remember that you have already assigned me two gigantic and com-plex research tasks, and now you have dumped another big job on meone that I can't possibly begin until after I finish the other two jobs.