Words at Work Contributor(s): Benjamin, Susan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0201154846 ISBN-13: 9780201154849 Publisher: Basic Books
Binding Type: Paperback Published: September 1997 Annotation: ts fast and clearly. This guide is a handbook every office needs, covering new media like e-mail, avoiding common mistakes, and overcoming writer's block. "Words at Work" belongs at every desk beside the dictionary. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Business Writing - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - General - Business & Economics | Business Communication - General |
Dewey: 808.066 |
LCCN: 97018551 |
Lexile Measure: 990(Not Available) |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.34" W x 8.89" L (0.74 lbs) 256 pages |
Features: Index, Price on Product |
Review Citations: Booklist 09/15/1997 pg. 187 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Today's business prose has to be done yesterday. And it has to cut through gigabytes of other information. Can your memos and marketing material compete? do you spend so much time agonizing over words that you have no time for other work?With Words at Work you can make your writing faster, more foreceful, and more fun. Susan Benjamin's six-step process can turn your next business documnet into the best you've ever written. Learn to: Raise a "writing umbrella" to make your message memorable; exorcise the demons of past criticism and bad advice; strengthen your style at a glance with "no-read" editing.Words at Work gives you quick-and-easy recipes for the most important letters, reports, and proposals. It steers you around the potholes of punctuation, usage, and grammar. Soon all your business documents, from press releases to e-mail, will reflect your best work--and leave you enough time to do that work |
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