EXTRA EXERCISES ONLINE
Index
This page provides rapid access to all of the Extra Exercises Online at this website that supplement the exercises in the textbook.
Extra Exercise Online 1.1 provides an activity that explores how workplace communications are designed to bring about change.
Extra Exercise Online 1.2 asks students to explore positive ways their values may influence the ways they will write on the job.
Extra Exercise Online 2.1 asks students to analyze the first draft of a résumé. Based on the information presented in Chapter 2, students then make suggestions about how to improve it.
Extra Exercise Online 2.2 asks students to analyze the first draft of an application letter. Based on the information presented in Chapter 2, students then make suggestions about how to improve it.
Extra Exercise Online 2.3 asks students to analyze a résumé and an application letter. Based on the information presented in Chapter 2, students then make suggestions about how to improve it.
Extra Exercise Online 2.4 asks students to analyze a résumé and an application letter after reviewing key points taken from Chapter 2. After they complete that task, they are asked to begin drafting their own application letter and résumé.
Extra Exercise Online 2.5 asks students to analyze early drafts of a résumé and an application letter. Next, students examine revised drafts along with a list of suggestions for making additional improvements. Students add to the list of suggested revisions that is started for them.
Extra Exercise Online 3.1 asks students to Chapter 3's Guideline 4 as they evaluate one version of a memo about improvements to a commercial greenhouse and then revise the memo to address it to another audience.
Extra Exercise Online 3.2 asks students to learn about the kinds of writing they might do in their careers.
Extra Exercise Online 4.1 asks students to plan the content and overall organization of a memo in which student present their perceptions of problems and their recommendations for improving an academic department.
Extra Exercise Online 4.2 asks students to implement Chapter 4's Guidelines 1 and 4 as they plan a communication that will inform workers at a manufacturing company about an upgrade to the inventory control system they use.
Extra Exercise Online 4.3 asks students to use their knowledge of their readers to plan the content for a communication that will meet the readers' needs as the company makes a transition.
Extra Exercise Online 4.4 asks students to apply Chapter 4's guidelines as they implement the superstructure for proposals (Figure 4-5) for improving the performance of a wastewater treatment plant.
Extra Exercise Online 5.1 asks students to consider their readers' concerns and questions as they plan and draft a memo concerning cleaning agents for circuit boards.
Extra Exercise Online 5.2 asks students to focus on counterarguments that might be raised against continuation of a recycling program that is funded by a county commission.
Extra Exercise Online 5.3 serves as an excellent follow-up to Extra Exercise Online 5.2, which asks students to focus on counterarguments. Exercise 5.3 asks students to use graphics as a tool for persuasion.
Extra Exercise Online 5.4 asks students to implement Chapter 5's Guideline 3: Show that Your Reasoning is Sound as they present survey data related to problems with health insurance company's computer system.
Extra Exercise Online 5.5 asks students to construct a communication with ethical implications in mind.
Extra Exercise Online 5.6 asks students to address their readers' concerns and questions.
Extra Exercise Online 6.1 asks students to apply and reflect on the guidelines in Chapter 6 as they begin the research process for writing a workplace communication.
Extra Exercise Online 7.1 asks students to reorder sentences and arrange paragraphs for a passage in an article on communication standards for multimedia by following Chapter 7's guidelines.
Extra Exercise Online 7.2 asks students to reorder sentences.
Expertise Exercises 2 Through 6. Students can download the textbook's Expertise Exercises 2 through 6 for Chapter 7.
Extra Exercise Online 8.1 asks students to revise a memo concerning computer security problems by following Chapter 8's guidelines for developing an effective style.
Extra Exercise Online 8.2 asks students to edit sentences according to Chapter's 8's Guidelines 1 through 3 on constructing sentences.
Extra Exercise Online 8.3 asks students to find and revise sentences that could be improved by applying Chapter 8's Guidelines 1 through 3 on constructing sentences.
Extra Exercise Online 8.4 asks students to edit sentences according to Chapter's 8's Guidelines 1 through 3 on constructing sentences.
Extra Exercise Online 8.5 asks students to revise a memo concerning theft of a company's chemical equipment by following Chapter 8's guidelines for developing an effective style.
Extra Exercise Online 8.6 asks students to edit sentences according to Chapter's 8's guidelines on constructing sentences.
Extra Exercise Online 9.1 asks students to use Chapter 9's guidelines to analyze the beginning of a report on printers.
Extra Exercise Online 9.2 asks students to use Chapter 9's guidelines to analyze the beginning of a report on ways a medical supply company can reverse a sales slump.
Extra Exercise Online 9.3 asks students to use Chapter 9's guidelines to analyze the beginning of a compilation of recipes.
Extra Exercise Online 10.1 asks students to use Chapter 10's Guidelines 2-6 to analyze the ending of a report on printers.
Extra Exercise Online 10.2 asks students to use applying Chapter 10's guidelines to analyze the ending of a memo on policies at a pharmacy.
Extra Exercise Online 10.3 asks students to use Chapter 10's guidelines to evaluate and improve the ending of state park's training program for park rangers.
Extra Exercise Online 10.4 asks students to use Chapter 10's guidelines to evaluate and improve the ending of a recipe compilation.
Extra Exercise Online 12.1 asks students to construct a bar graph, a line graph, describing the average daily volume of printing in four divisions of a company.
Extra Exercise Online 12.2 asks students to construct bar graphs, line graphs, and pictographs that display data on the average monthly solar radiation and temperature for selected US cities.
Extra Exercise Online 12.3 asks students to apply the guidelines in Chapter 12 when creating graphics that compare data from medical research on two anal
Extra Exercise Online 12.4 asks students to apply the guidelines in Chapter 12 when creating graphics that show results of a survey of women pregnant for the first time concerning the contents of infant formula.
Extra Exercise Online 14.1 asks students to use Chapter 14's guidelines when recommending revisions to the author of a letter seeking continued funding for an environmental research project.
Extra Exercise Online 14.2 asks students to apply Chapter 14's guidelines when recommending revisions to the author of a memo reporting problems found at a national forest.
Extra Exercise Online 14.3 asks students to review a letter using Chapter 14's guidelines.
Extra Exercise Online 14.4 asks students to revise the introduction to a set of instructions that will be included in a lab book for a horticulture class.
Extra Exercise Online 14.5 asks students to improve a general description of the procedure installing a particular software package on a mainframe computer.
Extra Exercise Online 17.1 asks students to prepare a storyboard for an oral presentation about their majors and career plans.
Extra Exercise Online 17.2 asks students to create an oral presentation using the storyboard they prepared in Exercise 17.1.
Extra Exercise Online 17.3 asks students to prepare an instructional oral presentation by following Chapter 17's guidelines.
Extra Exercise Online 21.1 asks students examine a progress report by applying the advice provided in Chapter 21.
Extra Exercise Online 21.2 asks students to examine an empirical report by applying the advice provided in Chapter 21.
Extra Exercise Online 21.3 asks students to examine a feasibility report by applying the advice provided in Chapter 21.
Extra Exercise Online 22.1 shows determine how the Superstructure for Proposals is adapted to a proposal asking for assistance.
Extra Exercise Online 23.1 asks students to improve a set of instructions for determining blood pressure in humans by applying the advice provided in Chapter 23.
Extra Exercise Online 23.2 asks students to improve a set of instructions for extracting DNA by applying the advice provided in Chapter 23.
Extra Exercise Online 23.3 asks students to improve a set of instructions for operating a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) by applying the advice provided in Chapter 23.
Extra Exercise Online 23.4 asks students to improve a set of instructions for inserting a graphics card into a personal computer.