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FT Essential Guide to Business Writing How to write to engage, persuade and sell

ISBN: 9780273761136 | 0273761137
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: FT Press
Pub. Date: 11/29/2011

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography

Whether you are writing a proposal, a report, a presentation or an email, this book will show you how to write to persuade staff, colleagues, board directors and customers. The Financial Times Essential Guide to Business Writing demonstrates how your choice of language can influence your reader. It gives you clear examples to show you the dos and don'ts of successful business writing and essential tips that are proven to make your writing more effective.

It shows you how to write for different audiences and in different media using style, structure and the psychology of language to your advantage. It also gives you the writing secrets used by the world's best advertising writers, which you can use to great effect in your own business writing.

 

About the authorp. vii
Introductionp. 1
Planningp. 3
Powerful business writing: Your objectivep. 7
Proposition: The thin end of your wedgep. 15
Content: Interrogation & insightp. 21
Context: Audience & mediump. 29
Concept: Bringing your story to lifep. 49
Essential Plan checklistp. 59
Doingp... MORE
Punctuation, grammar & usagep. 65
How to harness style & structurep. 77
How to craft that draftp. 87
How to win hearts & mindsp. 99
How to be utterly fascinatingp. 107
How to be irresistibly persuasivep. 113
Twenty-five quick winsp. 129
Essential Do checklistp. 151
Reviewingp. 153
Perfect, prune & polishp. 155
Giving & getting feedbackp. 161
Getting betterp. 167
Essential Review checklistp. 171
Indexp. 173
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Ian Atkinson

is a multi award-winning creative director at one of the UK?s biggest agency groups. He?s written copy in every major medium and for some of the best-known brands in their sectors ? including Avis, Barclays, Dyson, Macmillan, National Geographic, Oxfam, Sky and Zurich. He?s also written, edited or critiqued hundreds of business proposals, plans, presentations, pitch documents and marketing materials. Ian has a degree in psychology.



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