Communications Communicating Data to an Audience Discussion

PART 1: This course includes five short writing activities that will require you to create different types of technical communications. These are designed to actively test

your understanding and to apply your knowledge to potential real-world situations. These writing activities also provide practice in communicating your

reasoning in a professional manner.

PART 1:

The Importance of Clarity and Conciseness (Module Six)

As the new corporate communications manager, you have come across many examples of ineffective communications, including some older directives that were never carried out, mostly because of their unclear nature.

One example included an email stating that the recipient (within the research and development team) was to “create a presentation discussing the new product and send it to interested departments.” Others included a request from sales to technical support for “a list of the biggest problems with our hot products” and a memo from finance to all departments to “reduce the number of suppliers being used to better control costs.”

Develop step-by-step instructions that the international gadgets (IG) departments can use to help craft clear and concise directives. Your instructions must include the following critical elements:

 Introduction: Explain the issues with unclear directives and how these instructions will help alleviate those issues.

 Audience Analysis: What steps should an IG department employee take to analyze their audience for communication?

 Message Determination: What steps should an IG department employee take to determine the message for a communication?

 Clear and Concise Writing: What steps should an IG department employee take to ensure that a communication is written clearly and concisely?

Rubric

Guidelines for Submission: This instruction must be 2 to 3 pages in length (plus a cover page and references) and must be written in APA style. Use double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Integrate at least one resource cited in APA format. Review the Reading: Writing Instructions website for suggestions and formatting guidelines for instructions.

PART 2:

The main goal of any communication is to determine what message needs to be delivered and how to deliver it clearly and concisely to the intended audience. For this discussion, research the web and the SNHU Library databases to discover support for how we identify what message needs to be delivered to the intended audience and what methods we should employ to deliver the message concisely and with the highest level of clarity. In your initial post, complete the following:

List at least one resource in APA style.

Briefly summarize the main ideas from the resource.

Explain how this resource can be used to identify what message needs to be delivered to the audience and/or what methods we should employ to deliver the message clearly and concisely.

In your responses to your peers, compare and contrast your findings with the findings of your peers. Are there any additional ways, other than those mentioned by your peers, that this resource can be used to identify what message needs to be delivered to the audience? What methods we should employ to deliver the message clearly and concisely?