Essentials of Business Communication (with Premium Website, 1 term (6 months) Printed Access Card)
Essentials of Business Communication (with Premium Website, 1 term (6 months) Printed Access Card)
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ISBN: 9781285858913
Author: Mary Ellen Guffey, Dana Loewy
Publisher: South-Western College Pub
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Chapter 1, Problem 11CT
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Whether daily texting, Facebook updates, blog entries and other informal writing to be real writing. And how might such writing differ from the writing done in business.

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Informal writing is often understood as casual writing which uses colloquial language. These writings are known as grapevine. This is used usually when you are conversing with family members, friends and closely related individuals. These happen usually in daily texting, Facebook updates, blog entries, emails and other types of day to day casual texting.

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Details regarding informal writing examples and the question relating to real writing and formal business writing.

These daily examples of communication means of informal writing could be considered as real writing. This is where day to day activities are been spoken and updated on. These real writings are the live statuses on Facebook that is being updated about the daily activities being happening in the world. Blog entries on various topics are written daily about current happenings. Therefore, these informal writings are real writings that does not correspond to a structure or a formatted writing. These are written randomly without a structure or researched information.

However, writing in business is different to this informal structure. Business writing is more formalized with a given structure. Formal writing is where the message is clear, properly framed and well organized. They might include few real writing in some business writings such as daily organizational meetings for events, trips and etc. however 90% of the information and writings are formalized with a structure on to whom the message is being directed and the way the message body is being drafted. Every message has a flow from the senior and the information contained is much responsive to the organization.

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