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.
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