Information Drill Grade Calculation

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IDS 290 FINAL EXAMINATION INFORMATION

Spring 2004 (25%)

There will be 200 true and false and multiple choice questions drawn from the following sources:

1. All required text reading assignments on Class Schedule.

2. Aztec Shops Customized Materials (Dalbey's two notebooks).

3. All material presented in class by the instructor.

4. Style, format, and mechanics of business letters and memos:

• Chapter 13 Gregg Reference Manual.
• Applied principles used in all out-of-class writing assignments.

5. Your notes and writing assignment handouts.

Exam Breakdown:

• 31 questions - effective business writing techniques;
• 31 questions - communicating for employment;
• 80 questions - report writing;
• 15 questions - strategies for written communications;
• 43 questions - style, format, mechanics and correctness of business letters and memos.

Two Scan-Trons required (Form 882) and a Number 2 pencil

Do NOT fold, bend, or chew your Scan-Tron forms. Sorry, no dictionaries.

Examination Dates:

• Section 05: Thursday, May 6    0800 - 1000    BA-439
• Section 07: Thursday, May 6    1030 - 1230    BA-249

YOU MUST TAKE FINAL EXAM ON THE APPOINTED DAY AND HOUR FOR YOUR SECTION ABSOLUTELY NO EXCEPTIONS!

Arrive a few minutes early for announcements and exam instructions.

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IDS 290 FINAL EXAMINATION DRILL

True - False:

1. Objective writing is writing that stresses facts rather than the writer's opinions, biases, and attitudes.

2. Text references to graphics are best made incidentally.

3. The appendix is one logical place for charts, tables, and graphs directly supporting the main points in the body of the report.

Multiple Choice:

1. The pages preceding the text of a long, formal report are properly called:

• a. Introductory parts
• b. Preview parts
• c. Prefatory parts
• d. Foreword
• e. Orientation pages

2. A worker writing a one-page, informal, routine report to a coworker in another department would most appropriately use which report form?

• a. Letter
• b. Memorandum
• c. Short
• d. Long, formal
• e. Staff

3. Which is the best of five closing sentences for a message refusing to participate as a speaker on a program?

• a. I wish you a most successful meeting.
• b. May I say again that I regret that I must refuse.
• c. I sincerely hope that you understand why I must make this decision.
• d. Perhaps next time I will not have to refuse.
• e. Please forgive me this time.

• Final Examination                               25%
• LAR (base grade)                                27%

• Resume and Prospecting Letter         24%

• Letter of Request                               12%

• Disappointing News Letter                 12%

•                                               TOTAL 100%

Note: Decimal values of plus and/or minus will be given in the final semester grade.

Please bring a stamped and addressed postcard (available from the bookstore) to Final Exam for fast semester grade results (grades will not be posted on instructor's office door). No grades by E-mail.

You will be able to review your graded LAR upon completion of the Final Exam.  Please review my comments carefully.  Return Separate Packet materials to team members.

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