Homework Help: business communication

Posted by Sheliah on Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 3:59pm.

You are writing to a reader who favors a different solution than the one you recommended. Which of the following is MOST likely to persuade the reader?
A. Describe your reader's solution first, explain why it won't work, and then go on to describe your own solution.
B Ignore your opponent's solution and just concentrate on your own.
C. Describe your own solution first. Then briefly say why your reader's idea won't work.
D. Go back and forth between solutions, contrasting step by step.

business communication - Ms. Sue, Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 4:08pm
What do you think?
business communication - Sheliah, Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 4:10pm
Between A and C
business communication - Ms. Sue, Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 4:24pm
I like A and C also, as well as D. Does your book give you an idea of the author's preference?
business communication - Sheliah, Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 4:37pm
The author suggest using the problem-solving pattern.
business communication - Ms. Sue, Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 4:40pm
That narrows the answer to A or D.

I like D because it show step by step how the two plans compare.
business communication - Sheliah, Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 5:21pm
A is the correct answer
business communication - Ms. Sue, Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 5:24pm
Ok. Thanks for the update.

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