Com140 - Week 6 Checkpoint - Creating Effective Documents

CheckPoint: Creating Effective Documents

This course has covered various types of business communication, each with its own format and characteristics. In other courses, you write academic papers formatted according to guidelines in Axia College’s Writing Style Handbook. This CheckPoint provides you with an opportunity to compare the ways business and academic writing are similar and different.

• Review the Microsoft® Word tutorial at http://corptrain.phoenix.edu/office_tools/word_root.htm and Ch. 1 in Axia College’s Writing Style Handbook.

• Suggest two tips for creating academic documents not mentioned in the resources. Which guidelines are most important for formatting? Which guidelines is less important to a business document but more important to an academic paper?

• Explain your answers in 200-300 words.

Which guidelines are most important for formatting?

I believe that the guidelines most important for formatting depend on the kind of document one is attempting to complete. By all means, if one is attempting to create an APA format document for use at a University such as Axia College of University of Phoenix, then one must abide by all the rules located within the Axia College's Writing Style Handbook. There should not be any rule left out, otherwise one may be deducted points when the document is graded. I am not completely certain that there is any particular part of the available guidelines that is the most important since the guidelines are available to use to learn the APA format, and to follow all the rules listed. Perhaps remembering to cite correctly and reference all material used within any writing is the most important guideline since I believe this will offer anyone the most trouble when not followed.

In business writing, the most important guideline to follow regarding the format of the document is the type of...