Diana Roberts Wienbroer, Elaine Hughes, Jay Silverman
- Material Type: Internet resource
- Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
- Description: xi, 240 p. ; 23 cm.
- Contents: Writing in the business world -- Finding your focus -- Sizing up your work style -- What to do when you're stuck -- Organizing your ideas -- Paragraphing -- Continuity: using transitions -- Adding visual interest: layout, illustrations, and PowerPoint presentations -- Revising -- Proofreading -- Staying on top of the paper flow -- Steps toward a clear style -- Writing to persuade -- Writing with energy -- Trimming wordiness -- Varying your sentences -- Avoiding tangled sentences -- Eliminating biased language -- Email and fax messages -- Memos -- Letters -- Agendas and minutes -- Instructions and directions -- Reports -- Websites -- Newsletters and press releases -- Proposals -- Résumés -- Research on the internet -- Crediting outside sources -- Recurring projects -- Long-term projects -- Collaborative projects -- The spoken word -- Editing other people's drafts -- Writing for others -- Commonly confused words -- One word or two? -- Spelling -- Capitalization -- Abbreviations and numbers -- Correct pronouns -- Consistent pronouns -- Pronouns: avoiding vagueness -- Verbs: agreement with subjects -- Verbs: consistent tenses -- Word endings: s and ed -- Periods: avoiding sentence fragments and run-on sentences -- Commas -- Semicolons and colons -- Dashes and parentheses -- Hyphens -- Apostrophes -- Quotation marks -- Italicizing (underlining) or quoting titles.
- Responsibility: Diana Roberts Wienbroer, Elaine Hughes, Jay Silverman.
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