Audience responses to your messages depend heavily on your ...

[xroflmao]

Audience responses to your messages depend heavily on your ________, a measure of your believability based on how reliable you are and how much trust you evoke in others.
 
  A) persona
  B) savoir-faire
  C) credibility
  D) audience awareness
  E) performance

Question 2

In business messages, using terms such as if, hope, and trust is
 
  A) usually a bad idea since it takes away from the writer's credibility.
  B) a good way to show your modesty.
  C) common courtesy.
  D) acceptable for very formal contexts.
  E) a way to display a you attitude.

[elizabethrperez]

Answer to Question 1

Answer: C
Explanation: C) The way an audience responds to your message will depend heavily on your credibility; that is, how much others believe that they can rely on and trust you.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: A
Explanation: A) On their own, the words if, hope, and trust are acceptable. However, when used too frequently they tend to give a message a conditional tone, suggesting that you are hoping that events will turn out well rather than being confident that things will turn out well.

[xroflmao]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

[bassamabas]

Excellent