You Should Use the Direct Organizational Plan When You

question 72

Multiple Choice

You should use the direct organizational plan when you

• A)are not able to grant a customer's request.
• B)expect resistance and must persuade someone to do what you ask.
• C)must describe situations that are delicate or confidential.
• D)are explaining an important decision that will adversely affect the reader.
• E)are conveying routine information in which the reader is interested.

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Definitions:

Large Request

A technique in persuasion and social influence wherein an initially substantial and possibly unrealistic demand is made, expecting a subsequent smaller request to be more likely accepted.

Small Request

A strategy in persuasion where one starts with a minor request to increase the likelihood of compliance with a larger request later.

Visual Stimulus

Any object, environment, or image that elicits a visual response or reaction by being perceived through the sense of sight.

Nervous System

The network of nerve cells and fibers that transmits nerve impulses between parts of the body, coordinating bodily functions and responses.