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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Chapter 20 The Sound of Your Voice.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cliche words should be avoided at all costs. What else should be avoided?
(a) Assuming the writer has already been to a place.
(b) Cliched details.
(c) Not describing a place enough.
(d) Overly describing a single place.

2. What occurs when business writing is bad?
(a) Customers will go elsewhere to buy their goods and services.
(b) Executives get fired for pawning off simple writing tasks.
(c) Investors will agree to terms they do not understand.
(d) People will get fired for bad writing.

3. What happens when writers do not stick to proper grammar rules?
(a) It creates more bad writers.
(b) It makes readers believe that all writing is bad, and they won't ever read again.
(c) It distracts the readers and show conempt for the language.
(d) It makes readers mad.

4. What stops Americans from writing memoirs?
(a) An attitude to please teachers and not readers.
(b) People don't like reading memoires.
(c) Editors hate reading memoirs therefore don't pick them up.
(d) Memoires don't sell well enough.

5. What could cause a writer to write unclear?
(a) Not knowing what they want to say.
(b) Not taking any writing classes.
(c) Not having brainstormed enough.
(d) Not having enough experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when a product of writing is never read?

2. Do criticism writers need to take a stance on a show?

3. How much information should a writer provide to his or her readers?

4. Why is jargon, or corporate speak, so prevalent in business writing?

5. When can ornamental writing be used as an exception?

(see the answer key)

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