Business Communications

Expressions that do not stereotype or show bias in terms of gender, race, ethnicity, age, or disability.

• bias-free language

• prejudice language

• unfairness language

• prejudgment language

The first stage in the writing process; includes analyzing, anticipating, and adapting messages to fit their purpose and audience.

• prewriting

• writing

• drafting

The third phase of the writing process; includes revising, proofreading, and evaluating; also includes testing a message for clarity, conciseness, tone, and readability.

• revising

• drafting

• prewriting

• reviewing

Determining the audience and your purpose for writing.

• analyzing

• evaluating

• exploring

• investigating

This kind of sentence contains two complete independent clauses.

• simple

• complex

• compound

• compound-complex

A sentence with two independent clauses that is not joined by a comma plus conjunction OR a semicolon.

• complex sentence

• fragment

• run-on sentence

• comma splice

A sentence error that results when a writer joins two independent clauses with a comma.

• fragment

• comma splice

• complex sentence

Another word for a run-on sentence.

• bonded sentence

• fused sentence

• merged sentence

• multiple sentence

A writing technique that uses similar construction, such as researching, organizing, and writing to achieve balanced writing.

• parallelism

• equivalent

• corresponding

• matched

A sentence that contains two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause

• compound sentence

• complex sentence

• compound-complex sentence

• simple sentence