BBS Second Year Business Communication (Some important questions for practice)

 Business Communication

BBS Second Year

Some important questions for practice

1.     Which model of communication in your view is the most realistic in today’s business workplace?

2.     What are the key elements of the oral communication process? Describe them with examples.

3.     Which style of communication do you like most? Based on your own experience, give reasons for your answer.

4.     Explain how the nature of business communication emphasizes the relationship between producers and consumers of goods and services.

5.     Explain the types of communication contexts in business.

6.     Reflect and think critically about your communication skills. Identify all your skills under organizational, interpersonal, and leadership communication.

7.     Identify and explain the elements of professionalism in business communication.

8.     You are a sales representative at Overseas Manpower Services Nepal. Write a circular letter inviting people to take benefit of your services. Include details about some new offers.

9.     One of your class assignments requires you to write a profile about a company working in the area of advertisement and public relations. Write a letter to one such company asking for relevant information. Be sure to use the appropriate format.

10.You and your close colleague met yesterday and discussed a plan on opening a music video centre for young people. You both agreed on certain points and are meeting again next week. Design an advertisement to publicize your new business.

11.What are solicited and unsolicited business proposals? Describe their features. Also, explain how you can write them effectively.

12.What is the key difference between a business plan and a business report?

13.Write an unsolicited internal proposal to refurnish your office.

14.Explain a) informative presentation b) persuasive presentation, and c) collective presentation

15.How are formal presentations structured? Explain.

16.What is the benefit of signposting? What are its various techniques?

17.Do you agree that visual and nonverbal communication is integral to oral communication? Why? How? Explain

18.How important are resumes and cover letters in employee communication? Why?

19.A major business house working in the area of advertising and publishing is looking for a “Business Communicator”. Prepare your resume, and write a cover letter suitable for the job.

20.Define the following Terms

                                 I.            Encoding

                               II.            Visual aids

                            III.            Oral communication

                            IV.            Flow chart

                              V.            Active listening

                            VI.            Informative presentation

                         VII.            Unsolicited proposal

                       VIII.            Proposal

                            IX.            Business plan

                               X.            Cash flow

                            XI.            Report

                          XII.            Valediction

                       XIII.            Writing process

                       XIV.            Motivation

                         XV.            Memorandum

                       XVI.            Downward flow

                     XVII.            Informal report

21.What wrongs of “Old Nepal” does the poet want “New Nepal” to amend? (New Nepal)

22.In centuries past, human sacrifices were universally characteristic of cults of worship in many societies. But ritual murder is against the law in the story. Discuss the power of law versus the power of customs and ideas passed down from ancestors regarding such rituals. (Looking For the Rain God)

23.What is Evelin’s duty to herself? To her father? What promises did she make to her mother? Does she have a “right to happiness? Why or why not? (Eveline)

24.Are Sontag’s claims about the place of beauty in a culture applicable to Nepali culture as well? Explain your answer. (Beauty)

25.Summarize in about 50 words the main theme of the “Allegory of the Cave”

26.Explain what the writer means when she says that the age in which we live is emotionally conflicted” (From the Fountainhead to the Future)

27.What is the main idea of “Once More to the Lake”?

28.How could Woolf’s warning about the danger of the Angel in the House be useful to modern women who are in careers other than writing such as law or publishing or engineering? (Profession for Women)

29.What types of women is Nathaile? Do you suppose she will remain faithful to Brantain in the future?

30.Is it justified or unjustified for a doctor to use violence on a patient? Why or Why not? What insight does the story offer on the nature of will?

31.Do you agree with Synder that man is an animal? Why?

 

32. What thesis about “the real nature of imperialism” does George Orwell prove by narrating this “tiny incident?” (Shooting an Elephant)                     

33. How does the speaker move between the concept of freedom and bondage in the poem? (The Parrot in the Cage)                                                                                    

34. E.B. White describes his experience in his personal essay Once More to the Lake. As he revisits a childhood lake in Maine, he transforms himself to find enjoyment in the journey.  Explain briefly how the lake serves as the setting for both the author's past and present.                                                                                                            

35.If beauty is a source of power, why does Sontag object to women’s striving to attain it? Why is it wrong to try to be beautiful? (Beauty)                                                                                                                                          

36.The article The Company Man is about a workaholic employee Phil. A workaholic is someone for whom work is a compulsion, one who takes the behavior of the workplace to an extreme, who never has a quitting time, and who sacrifices everything in life for the sake of a job. The company president, while attending Phil’s funeral, mentioned that Phil’s determination is irreplaceable. At the moment, Phil’s wife was reluctant to maintain eye contact with the president fearing that her bitterness and hatred for Phil would be reflected. Analyze what she must have acknowledged about the importance of nonverbal cues. Support your answer with evidence from the text as well as from your own experiences   (                                                                                                    

37. The Kiss is Kate Chopin’s short story about a woman scheming to marry a wealthy man. The imagery in the first paragraph foreshadows the revelation that Nathalie is plotting to marry the good-natured but unattractive and rather foolish Brantain while maintaining an affair with Mr. Harvy. Above all, Nathalie thinks she can flirt with one man even after marrying another–but has to console herself with her new husband ‘and his million’. With reference to the context of the story, as a business student, how do you relate the issue of gender and wealth?                                                                                               

 

38.R. Scholes N.R Comley and G.L Ulmer in their essay ‘’Light My Lucky” describes an advertisement for Lacky Strike Light cigarettes and point out how important it is for consumers to learn how to make critical scrutiny of ads and text made for promotional purposes. Think of some other cigarette ad or any other ad and write a comment on it as in the essay.