Which of the following is a formal research method?

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

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Looking in company files

Brainstorming

Investigating primary sources

Talking with your boss

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

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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

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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?

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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

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topic sentence.

supporting content.

preview.

blueprint.