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The document outlines a curriculum for composing business messages, detailing informal and formal research methods, strategies for organizing information, and guidelines for drafting messages. It emphasizes the importance of using various sentence types while avoiding common sentence faults, and highlights techniques for effective communication such as emphasizing key ideas and maintaining grammatical accuracy. The document serves as a reference for students in the Division of English for Special Purposes at the University of Foreign Languages and International Studies.

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Lecture note_Chap 3

The document outlines a curriculum for composing business messages, detailing informal and formal research methods, strategies for organizing information, and guidelines for drafting messages. It emphasizes the importance of using various sentence types while avoiding common sentence faults, and highlights techniques for effective communication such as emphasizing key ideas and maintaining grammatical accuracy. The document serves as a reference for students in the Division of English for Special Purposes at the University of Foreign Languages and International Studies.

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University of Foreign Languages and International Chapter 3

Studies Composing Business


DIVISION OF ENGLISH FOR SPECIAL Messages
PURPOSES

Student’s name:
……………………………………………………

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:
 Search the company’s files
 Talk with the boss
 Interview the target audience
 Conduct an informal survey
 Brainstorm for ideas
(2) Formal Research Methods:
 Access digital sources
 Search manually
 Investigate primary sources
 Conduct scientific experiments

Outcome 2: Organize information into strategic relationships.


 Two ways to organize information to show relationships:
 (3) Scratch list
 (4) Outline
 Two strategies to organize ideas:
 Use the Direct Strategy if the audience (5) receptive (pleased, mildly interested or
neutral)
 Use the Indirect strategy if the audience (6) unreceptive (uninterested, unwillingly,
displeased or hostile)
 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) Simple sentence (one independent clause): She needs a job.
 (10) Compound sentence (two independent clauses): She needs a job, and she must expand
her skillset.
 (11) Complex sentence (one independent and one dependent clause): Because she needs a
job, she must expand her skillset.
 (12) Compound-complex sentence (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) fragment (broken-off parts of sentence).
 E.g.: E-mail seems boring. When compared with Twitter.
 (14) Revision: _________________________________.
 Avoid (15) run-on sentence (two independent clauses without coordinating conjunction or
semicolon)
 E.g.: He’s addicted to social media he posts updates constantly.
 (16) Revision: _______________________________________.
 Avoid (17) comma splice (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) 15 words 90%

19 words (20) 80%

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: ______________________________________________________.

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