The totals help people make comparisons during analysis.
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Ques. 2Madeline is writing an e-mail message to ask about conference facility availability and rates. She should use the direct pattern.
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Ques. 3Which of the following should you do when interpreting and analyzing a graphic presented within a text?
A) Restate what the graphic obviously shows to facilitate a deeper level understanding.
B) Emphasize the main point you are making and include an improved revision.
C) Include extra graphics in order to reiterate what the main graphic states.
D) List all the statistics already presented in the text emphasizing their importance.
Ques. 4The direct organizational pattern should be used when writing to an audience that will be unwilling, uninterested, displeased, disappointed, or hostile.
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Ques. 5In formatting a report, if you discover that an entire table will not fit on the bottom of a page, you should:
A) continue the graphic interpretation to the bottom of the page and begin the next page with the table.
B) begin the table, allow an adequate margin at the bottom of the page, and complete the table at the top of the next page.
C) end the page with the introduction to the table, regardless of space left on the page.
D) place the table prior to the text reference to it if that placement will allow the entire table to appear on that page.
Ques. 6Organizing a message effectively involves grouping ideas to show relationships.
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Ques. 7Madison is preparing a report on war fatalities in three different war zones. She has designed a bar chart comparing the number of fatalities in each war zone and now wants to insert it in her report. Which of the following is a recommended way of inserting the graphic in her report?
A) Madison should include the graphic in the text immediately after introducing it and then put in an analysis after it.
B) Madison should insert a reference to the graphic in the form of a page number or see above.
C) Madison should interpret and analyze the graphic before the graphic appears in the report.
D) Madison should analyze the graphic and place it in the references section at the end of the report.