
Words At Work
Business Writing In Half The Time With Twice The Power
Susan Benjamin(Author)
Perseus Books (Publisher)
Published on 8. September 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-201-15484-9 (ISBN)
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!
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Boulder
United States
Publishing group
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
366 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-201-15484-9 (9780201154849)
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Person
Susan Benjamin is founder of Words at Work, Inc., which offers writing services and strategies for all sizes of businesses. "Few medium-sized companies, or big ones for that matter, can boast of its skill bank," wrote Tom Peters in his book Liberation Management. Benjamin has also taught writing at Berklee and other colleges in Boston.
Content
The Must-Read IntroductionListingWritingRewriting for StructureEditing for Word UseShowingProofreadingModelsThe Last Word