Rules of Thumb for Business Writers - Softcover

Wienbroer, Diana; Etc.; Silverman, Jay; Hughes, Elaine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072347465 ISBN 13: 9780072347463

Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 1999

Synopsis

The third in a successful McGraw-Hill series that includes "Rules of Thumb: A Guide for Writers", "Rules of Thumb for Online Research", and "Rules of Thumb for Research", this guide has been designed to be used as a main text, a supplementary resource, and as a quick and easy reference. With full course of the writing process, directions, and advice that work, "Rules of Thumb for Business Writers" addresses the most common writing problems students will face every day in the business world.

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From the Back Cover

Great writing gets great results! Now you can too with easy lessons on powerful and accurate "to-the-point" business writing. Whether you're laboring over a letter, agonizing over the outline of your next big report, or simply wondering whether that comma really makes sense, turn to this handy book from the author team of the best-selling Rules of Thumb: A Guide for Writers. Designed to meet the on-the-job writing challenges of time-starved professionals, it's packed with concise explanations of the most frequent problems in writing, bulleted lists of easy-to-follow guidelines, and hundreds of practical examples that
instantly illustrate the concepts. Rules of Thumb for Business Writers will show you how to: find your focus...organize your thoughts...format your documents for optimal readability...begin with attention-grabbers...adopt a conversational tone...and produce more succinct and persuasive letters, e-mails, memos, agendas, reports,
newsletters, resumes, and more. Plus, you'll learn to effortlessly adhere to the rules of punctuation, grammar, and usage, including knowing when to capitalize...choosing the correct prononun...avoiding fragments and run-on sentences...and properly placing apostrophes.

About the Author

A graduate of Amherst College and the University of Virginia, Jay Silverman has received fellowhsips from the Fulbright-Hayes Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has taught at Vriginia Highlands Community College and at Nassau Community College where he received the Honors Program award for Excellence in Teaching. As Chair of the English Department of Nassau Community College for six years, Diana Roberts Wienbroer coordinated a department of 150 faculty members and served on the Executive Council of the Association of Departments of English. Besides teaching writing for over thirty years, both in Texas and New York, she has studied and taught film criticism. She is also the author of THE McGRAW-HILL GUIDE TO ELECTRONIC RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION, 1997. Elaine Hughes came to New York City from Mississippi in 1979 to attend a National Endowment for the Humanities seminar at Columbia Uniersity. She has taught writing for more than 25 years--primarily at Hinds Community College in Raymond, Mississippi, and at Nassau Community College--and has conducted writing workshops for many organizations. She is the author of WRITING FROM THE INNER SELF.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0072347465
• ISBN 13: 9780072347463
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160