Homework4 Tara

Specific purpose

2. A blog posting (on your external website) to customers and the news media about your company's plans to acquire a competitor:

I want people who visiting my blog to complete with my company. One of the reasons is that I am very confident of my product and customers who know our posting may increase their confidence and interest of the product. Besides, our product can be improved and revised much better than before because the stimulus of other competitors.

4. An e-mail message to employees about the office's high water bills:

The specific purpose of the message is to let every employee to pay attention to the high water bills. It also makes them beware of economizing on water, or the company will plan some rules to solve the problems.

6. A podcast to new users of the company's online content management system:

The specific purpose of the movement is to let every new user know that they can share any ideas or suggestions to the company's online content management system. The company supposes that some new users are too backward or hesitated to share their ideas directly to the company. They hope the online content management system can not only fulfill the new users' needs and but also increase the closer relationship between new users and company.

Exploring the Web on Your Own

1. After browsing the website, I think the website is useful and highly related to our course. There update business tips weekly and help viewers solve their problems. In fact, I think "you" view means the writer should write the message in reader's view, conveying the message even directly. Thus, I think one of the three tips for "you" view is to know the correct usage of words before you use them. Most mistakes second language learners make are like translating context or their ideas word by word. Some words they choose hardly use in daily life, so we have to make sure the right and specific usage of each word. For instance, which is correct, "like most" or "most like"? The answer is the later one because the adverb" most" should follow the verb it modifies. We should say "what project would you like most" instead of "what project would you most like".

2. The second tip is about using simple and familiar words. Business writing means you may write to anyone whose primary language is not the same with you. Therefore, we should avoid using sophisticated and rare words, because it probably will confuse the reader. For example. we should replace " This message is obscure" with "this message is not clear enough".

3. The third tip is how to make your writing more concrete. We should think over what is you main purpose and stick to it. The business writing should be clear, simple and straightforward. If your issue is ambiguous, it makes confuse your reader and decrease your interaction. Many disputes in the contract results from ambiguities.

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