If a message is well organized and contains well-chosen words, including necessary and appropriate transitional words, phrases, and paragraphs, it will be coherent. The message must answer fully all the reader s questions and gives all the needed or desired information. A report must fulfill its stated purposed which, in a report arranged in the inductive order, is stated early in the introduction. Conciseness means a written or oral message is no longer than it needs to be to accomplish its particular purpose or purposes. Conciseness is not necessarily brevity.
Consideration goes one step further than courtesy.
The terms are not exactly synonymous. Consideration is the broader term and includes what you actually say in your message or the solution to your particular problem. Consideration is simply another name for one aspect of the you attitude , which is often discussed in relation to business letters but is also applicable to business reports and all other business messages. Constructive writing is positive, specific, helpful, convincing, and effective. Convincing writing is written in specific, concrete words that lead logically to a reasonable conclusion.