Chapter 6 Reflections

Before reading chapter 6, I hadn't realized how many different types of documents there are in the business world.  I am a dance major, and this M COM class is my first experience dealing with business writing.  I can write stories, research papers, and letters galore, yet business writing is still a new creature for me.  Despite the differences, there are still many commonalities between business writings and the writings I'm already familiar.  In all genre's, importance is placed on the purpose of the writing, the intended audience, and the strategy for achieving the purpose.  Something that stood out to me in chapter 6 was the information about different formats for writing letters.  The three formats discussed are full-block, modified-block, and simplified.  I will need to practice writing it each of these formats before I can comfortably identify them and understand them, but this chapter gave a wonderful guide to grasping them.