Business Communication Essentials, 7th Ed.
Chapter 4. Writing Business Messages
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"The key to more natural English rhythm is understanding what is emphasized and what falls into the background.
"Bezos is Amazon's chief writing evangelist, and his advocacy for the art of long-form writing as a motivational tool and idea-generation technique has been ordering how people think and work at Amazon for the last two decades—most importantly, in how the company creates new ideas, how it shares them, and how it gets support for them from the wider world.
"The key to more natural English rhythm is understanding what is emphasized and what falls into the background.
"When you’re in an interview, everything is focused on you – your education, your skills, and the qualities that make you the best candidate for the job.
"In this American English pronunciation lesson you will learn all about the pronunciation of L at the beginning of words and syllables (the Light L sound) and you will learn how to distinguish L vs R.
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"In part 1 of this 3 part series on American R you will learn what to do with your tongue, lips and jaw to pronounce the R sound and we will practice the American R at the beginning of words.
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"The wordsmiths at Lake Superior State University have released LSSU’s 44th annual List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness.
See the infographic at GrammarCheck.
Jennifer Frost presents the infographic at GrammarCheck.
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Linguist John McWhorter "traces the evolution of five words that have spent millennia drifting from one meaning into another.
"A dear friend just told me about an embarrassing apostrophe situation she experienced at work.
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"In this video, I talk about what helped me speak with an American accent and how I became fluent in English.
"In the very first episode of Read Ink, I explain the difference between proofreading and editing, and how those two processes should be done individually for a stronger overall manuscript.
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"A lot of writing for business is sloppy, poorly written, disorganized, littered with jargon, and incomplete.
"A lot of writing for business is sloppy, poorly written, disorganized, littered with jargon, and incomplete.
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