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Explain the importance of conciseness in business writing and microblogging. Then describe three techniques you can use to make your writing concise. Give a before-and-after example of each technique.

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Which of the following is a collection of artifacts that demonstrate your communication, people, and technical skills?
 A) A print rsum
  B) A beamer
  C) An electronic rsum
  D) A professional portfolio



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Answer to Question 1

Conciseness involves making your point in the fewest possible words. Messages without flabby expressions, long lead-ins, fillers, redundancies, and empty words are easier to comprehend and more emphatic because main points stand out.


Efficient messages also save the reader valuable time, which, in turn, saves money. Many busy executives today won't read wordy reports; therefore, concise messages are much more likely to be read. Conciseness is especially important in microblogging, which consists of short messages exchanged on social media networks. Twitter, for example, limits each post (tweet) to 140 characters, including spaces, punctuation, and links.

Techniques to achieve conciseness (students should a before-and-after example of each):

Reduce flabby expressions such as at this point in time, despite the fact that, and until such time as.


Delete long lead-ins such as I am writing this e-mail message to inform you that.


Avoid unnecessary opening fillers such asthere are, there is, and it is.


Eliminate redundancies such asabsolutely essential, exactly identical, and new beginning.


Purge empty words such as in the case of and in the instance of.

Answer to Question 2

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