Can you use the same approach for planning website content as you use for planning printed reports? why or why not?
Learning Goal: I’m working on a business multi-part question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.
6.3 Chapter Questions 6
- Adapt the three-step writing process to reports and proposals
- Explain the role of primary and secondary research for business communication purposes
- Describe how to plan and organize informational reports, analytical reports, and website content
- Discuss the principles and importance of graphics and visuals in a report or proposal
Under the Apply Your Knowledge section at the end of Chapter 10:
- Respond to questions 10-9 & 10-10
- Select the Submit Assignment button to upload your assignment to Turnitin
Under the Practice Your Skills section at the end of Chapter 11:
- Respond to activity 11-15 & 11-18
- For activities 11-15, if possible, include the three visuals in your response (cut and paste or link to the visual)
10-9
Companies occasionally make mistakes that expose confidential information, such as when employees lose laptop computers containing sensitive data files or web masters forget to protect confidential webpages that were clearly intended to be private, what would you do? explain your answer
10-10 Can you use the same approach for planning website content as you use for planning printed reports? why or why not?11-15 Find three visual presentations of data, information, or concepts on any business subject. Which of the 3 presents its data or information most clearly? what design choices promote this level of clarity? what improvements would you make to the other visuals to make them clearer?
11-18 producing formal reports you are president of the Friends of the Library, a nonprofit group that raises funds and provides volunteers to support your local library. Every February, you send a report of the previous year’s activities and accomplishments to the Country Arts Council, which provides an annual grant of 1,000$ toward your group’s summer reading festival. Now it’s February 6, and you’ve completed your formal report.
Here are the highlights:
Back to school book sale raised $ 2,000
The holiday craft fair raised $1,1000
Promotion and prizes for the summer reading festival cost $1.450
Materials for children’s program featuring local author cost $125
Resources
Bovée, C. L., & Thill, J. V. (2019). Business communication essentials: Fundamental skills for the mobile-digital-social workplace. (8th ed.) Pearson. ISBN: 978-0-13-472940-4
- Chapter 10: Understanding and Planning Reports and Proposals
- Chapter 11: Writing and Completing Reports and Proposals
