Question

1. Which of the following is a formal research method?

Group of answer choices

Looking in company files

Brainstorming

Investigating primary sources

Talking with your boss

2. When should passive voice be used in business writing?

Group of answer choices

When you want to de-emphasize the action or the recipient of the action

Never

When you want to conceal the doer of the action

When you want to emphasize the bad news

3. Select ALL that apply
To build paragraph coherence, a writer should

Group of answer choices

repeat a key idea by using the same expression or a similar one.

show connections with transitional expressions.

use pronouns to refer to previous nouns.

4. In effective business writing, where in a paragraph does a topic sentence usually appear?

Group of answer choices

Midway through, to keep readers focused

At the end, to summarize what has been discussed

Topic sentences are unnecessary in business writing.

At the beginning, to let readers know what to expect

5. The sentence that expresses a paragraph's main idea is called the

Group of answer choices

topic sentence.

supporting content.

preview.

blueprint.

Answer 1

1. Investigating primary sources is a formal research method. Whereas the remaining ones are not relevant in this context.

2. When you want to conceal the doer of the action is the situation in which you should passive voice be used in business writing. Whereas the remaining ones are not ideal situations for the use of passive voice.

3. Repeat a key idea by using the same expression or a similar one, show connections with transitional expressions, and use pronouns to refer to previous nouns are the ways through which a writer should do to build paragraph coherence.

4. At the beginning, to let readers know what to expect is where in a paragraph does a topic sentence usually appear in effective business writing. Whereas the remaining ones are not appropriate in this context.

5. Topic sentence is the term that is used for the sentence that expresses a paragraph's main idea. Whereas the remaining terms are not applicable in this context.