Successful Writing at Work : Concise Edition
ISBN: 9780618948642 | 0618948643
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 2/22/2008
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This user-friendly, compact text presents the most necessary, useful skills and strategies for successful workplace writing. Based on the successful parent text, Successful Writing at Work, 8/e, the Concise Edition maintains a practical approach, an abundance of realistic situations and problems, real-world examples, and detailed guidelines for drafting, editing, and producing professional documents and graphics. The Second Edition features a contemporary, open, and user-friendly design, including a wider trim size to allow for marginal note-taking and many new and up-to-date visuals.
| Backgrounds | |
| Getting Started: Writing and Your Career | |
| Writing--An Essential | |
| Job Skill | |
| Writing for the Global Marketplace | |
| Four Keys to Effective | |
| Writing Characteristics of Job-Related | |
| Writing Ethical | |
| Writing in the Workplace | |
| The Writing Process and Collaboration at Work | |
| What W... MORE | |
| Is Not and Is Researching | |
| Planning | |
| Drafting | |
| Revising | |
| Editing | |
| Collaboration Is Crucial to the Writing | |
| Process Seven | |
| Guidelines for Successful Group | |
| Writing Sources of Conflict in Group | |
| Dynamics and How to Solve Them | |
| Collaborating Online | |
| Correspondence | |
| Writing Memos | |
| Faxes, and E-Mails | |
| What Memos | |
| Faxes, and E-Mails | |
| Have in Common | |
| Memos Faxes E-Mail | |
| Writing Letters | |
| Letters in the Age of the Internet | |
| Letter Formats | |
| Guidelines on Printing Your Letters | |
| Parts of a Letter Organizing a Standard | |
| Business Letter | |
| Making a Good Impression on Your Reader | |
| Types of Business Letters | |
| Inquiry Letters Special Request | |
| Letters Sales | |
| Letters Customer | |
| Relations Letters | |
| International Business Correspondence | |
| How to Get a Job | |
| R?sum?s, Letters of Application, and Interviews | |
| Steps the Employer | |
| Takes to Hire | |
| Steps to Follow to Get Hired | |
| Analyzing Your Strengths | |
| Looking in the Right Places for a Job | |
| Preparing a R?sum? | |
| Letters of Application Going to an Interview | |
| Preparing Documents and Visuals | |
| Designing Successful | |
| Documents and Visuals Organizing | |
| Information Visually | |
| The ABCs of Print Document | |
| Design Three Rules of Effective | |
| Page Design: A Wrap-Up | |
| The Purpose of Visuals | |
| Two Categories of Visuals | |
| Tables Figures | |
| Using Visual Ethically | |
| Using Appropriate Visuals for International Audiences | |
| Writing Instructions and Procedures | |
| Instructions and Your Job | |
| Why Instructions | |
| Are Important | |
| The Variety of Instructions | |
| A Brief Overview | |
| Assessing and Meeting Your Audience's | |
| Needs The Process of Writing Instructions | |
| Using the Right Style | |
| Using Visuals Effectively | |
| The Five Parts of Instructions | |
| Model of Full Set of Instructions | |
| Writing Procedures for Policies and Regulations | |
| Some Final Advice | |
| Writing Effective | |
| Short Reports and Proposals | |
| Why Short Reports | |
| Are Important Types of Short Reports | |
| Guidelines for Writing Short Reports | |
| Periodic Reports Sales Reports | |
| Progress Reports Trip/Travel Reports | |
| Incident Reports Writing | |
| Successful Proposals | |
| Guidelines for Writing | |
| Successful Proposals | |
| Internal Proposals | |
| Sales Proposals | |
| Writing Careful | |
| Long Reports | |
| Characteristics of a Long Report | |
| The Process of Writing a Long Report | |
| Parts of a Long Report | |
| The Whys and Hows of Documentation | |
| A Model Long Report | |
| Making Successful Presentations at Work Types of Presentations | |
| Informal Briefings Formal Presentations | |
| Analyzing Your Audience | |
| The Parts of Formal Presentations | |
| Presentation Software Noncomputerized Presentations | |
| Rehearsing Your Presentation | |
| Delivering Your Presentation | |
| Evaluating Presentations | |
| A Writer's Brief Guide to Paragraphs | |
| Sentences, and Words Paragraphs | |
| Sentences Words | |
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