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Chapter 3 – Critical Thinking Graded Assignment (7%) Critical Thinking Questions Answer the following questions and upload to your Moodle course. 1. To what degree are trends in business and developments in technology forcing workers to write more than ever before? What evidence supports this trend? (Obj. 1) With the speed in which technology is used today, professionals are now replacing handwritten letters and phone calls with emails, texts, and social media post messages more than ever before. The quicker you can put your concept down and the more concise and clear you can be in your message to explain to your receiver what needs to be said, the better success you will be in your chosen career. 2. Molly, a twenty-three-year-old college graduate with a 3.5 GPA, was hired as an administrative assistant. She was a fast learner on all the software, but her supervisor had to help her with punctuation. On the ninth day of her job, she resigned, saying: “I just don’t think this job is a good fit. Commas, semicolons, spelling, typos—those kinds of things just aren’t all that important to me. They just don’t matter.” What do you think of Molly’s reasoning? Why? (Objs. 1–5) I do not agree with Mollys’ decision. Molly will need to learn the grammar that she states does not mean that much to her. There is not one job/career that will not require knowledge to proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation, whether you are working on the floor as a labourer in a manufacturing plant or construction labourer, waitress or salesclerk. All blue collar and white-collar jobs require proper communication with clarity.

Chapter 3 – Critical Thinking Graded Assignment (7%) 3. Why is audience analysis so important in the selection of the direct or indirect organization strategy for a business message? (Obj. 2) It will help make good choices in topic, language, style of presentation, and other views of your speech. The more you know about your audience, the better you can provide a more customized message that will peek their interests and needs. There are undoubtedly limits to what we can learn through information collection, we will need to acknowledge that before making assumptions, but knowing how and what information to gather and use through audience analysis is an essential skill for success. 4. How are speakers different from writers in the way they emphasize ideas? (Obj. 4) Speakers differ from writers since speakers have multiple tools to use to their advantage such as, their voice tone, facial expression, and body languages in expressing a certain idea. This leaves the writers to use their creative thought process to describe their ideas or express their ideas through the words. 5. Now that you have studied the active and passive voice, what do you think when someone in government or business says, “Mistakes were made”? Is it unethical to use the passive voice to avoid specifics? (Obj. 4) “Mistakes were made” is an ethical way of stating a fact without placing blame on one person or a group of workers. It allows one to state what is happening without allocating the mistake and yet still owning up to the fact and that it is acknowledged and will be attended to.

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