A Newly Hired Colleague Has Asked for Your Advice About

question 50

Multiple Choice

A newly hired colleague has asked for your advice about revising e-mail messages, text messages, and tweets. What is the best advice you can give her? 

• A)In today's fast-paced digital age, you shouldn't take time to revise e-mail messages, text messages, or tweets because doing so reduces productivity.
• B)People don't expect informal text messages and tweets to be perfect, so don't worry about revising them.
• C)To avoid messages that waste time, create confusion, and reduce your credibility, take time to revise e-mail messages, text messages, and tweets.
• D)Text messages and tweets are too informal to be used in a business environment.

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Definitions:

Payee

The individual or entity to whom a payment is made or owed, especially noted in the context of checks or promissory notes.

Certify

To officially recognize, attest, or confirm something as true, accurate, or within a set of standards.

Heirs

Individuals legally entitled to inherit a deceased person's assets under statutory or testamentary succession laws.

Stop-payment Order

A request made to a bank by an account holder to not pay a check or payment that has been issued but not yet processed.