How to Write Reports and Proposals
Create Attention-Grabbing Documents that Achieve Your Goals
5th Edition
Published on 3. July 2019
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-1-78966-003-6 (ISBN)
Description
How to Write Reports and Proposals is essential reading for achieving effective writing techniques. Getting a message across on paper and presenting a proposal in a clear and persuasive form are vital skills for anyone in business, and this book provides practical advice on how to impress, convince and persuade your colleagues or clients.
Fully updated for 2019, this 5th edition now features even more practical exercises, useful templates, and top tips that will help you to write succinctly and with impact across different media. How to Write Reports and Proposals will give you the tools to put over a good case with style.
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Unlock vital skills, power up your performance and get ahead with the bestselling Creating Success series. Written by experts for new and aspiring managers and leaders, this million-selling collection of accessible and empowering guides will get you up to speed in no time. Packed with clever thinking, smart advice and the kind of winning techniques that really get results, you'll make fast progress, quickly reach your goals and create lasting success in your career.
Fully updated for 2019, this 5th edition now features even more practical exercises, useful templates, and top tips that will help you to write succinctly and with impact across different media. How to Write Reports and Proposals will give you the tools to put over a good case with style.
The Creating Success series of books...
Unlock vital skills, power up your performance and get ahead with the bestselling Creating Success series. Written by experts for new and aspiring managers and leaders, this million-selling collection of accessible and empowering guides will get you up to speed in no time. Packed with clever thinking, smart advice and the kind of winning techniques that really get results, you'll make fast progress, quickly reach your goals and create lasting success in your career.
More details
Series
Edition
5th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 146 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
394 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78966-003-6 (9781789660036)
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Patrick Forsyth
How to Write Reports and Proposals
Create Attention-Grabbing Documents that Achieve Your Goals
Book
07/2022
6th Edition
Kogan Page Ltd
€61.00
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Additional editions
Patrick Forsyth
How to Write Reports and Proposals
Create Attention-Grabbing Documents that Achieve Your Goals
Book
07/2019
5th Edition
Kogan Page Ltd
€32.37
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Person
Patrick Forsyth runs Touchstone Training & Consultancy and specializes in marketing, sales and communications skills. He is the author of more than fifty successful business books (with translations into 23 languages), including Successful Time Management also published in the Kogan Page Creating Success series. He writes regularly for a number of business journals, and for Writing Magazine, and devises and writes training materials.
Content
Chapter - 00: Introduction - Pitfalls and opportunities;
Chapter - 01: What makes good business writing?;
Chapter - 02: Creating a good report;
Chapter - 03: Preparing to write;
Chapter - 04: The power of language;
Chapter - 05: Making numbers clear;
Chapter - 06: Making proposals persuasive;
Chapter - 07: The contribution of layout and presentation
Chapter - 01: What makes good business writing?;
Chapter - 02: Creating a good report;
Chapter - 03: Preparing to write;
Chapter - 04: The power of language;
Chapter - 05: Making numbers clear;
Chapter - 06: Making proposals persuasive;
Chapter - 07: The contribution of layout and presentation