Monday, April 12, 2010

Writing Completely

When deciding what you want to say in a document, there should be some time spent to analyze what message you want to relay, how you want to relay it, and who you are relaying it to. By identifying these three categories, you can then decide what information is necessary to "complete" your message. An example of this is are key details, such as the time or place of an event. Leaving a key piece of information out of a message can be very devastating, especially in the professional world. Some pieces of information are optional, or what a reader wants, but doesn't need, to know. This is where it is up to the individual who is creating the document to decide if that information should be inclusive in the document or not. Some reasons for exclusion could be document length, information that is for some, but not all, recipients of the document, etc. Keep an open mind about who is going to be reading the document, and be sure to not leave out any key pieces of information.

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5 comments:

  1. Good information, but you forgot to embed the video and forgot your name in the title. I've forgotten my name twice now and was just given you a heads up.

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  2. I think that you gave great information, I agree that when writing you should never leave out something that is important, that is why it is important to review your writing before you submit it. I also liked how you said it is up to the writer to decide if you should put things that are not needed in the writing.

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  3. nice post. your gave great details and examples of everything you were trying to get across. i felt that you were very complete on "writing completely".

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  4. Good information! You had a simple sentence error "An example of this is are key details, such as the time or place of an event. " where you said "is are", and should have used one or the other, but not both. Other than that, i agree with everyone else, you did a great job.

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  5. Also, please use spaces between your paragraphs. White space is important for your reader. Use more voice and embed your video as your reader isn't going to go out of the blog to view it with the link.

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