Business Communication Essentials, 7th Ed.
Chapter 4. Writing Business Messages
"Words are everywhere, and many are strung together recklessly.
Andrea Wenger (photo, left) is the membership manager with the Carolina chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC).
"Writing with numbers and figures is an overlooked skill despite the fact that we often include them in our communications.
"We reached out to the Global Language Monitor, which publishes an annual list of the year's top English words, to compile a ranking of the most popular business terms.
I wrote one of the most popular articles in our business writing blog, "Top Ten Irritating Phrases," in 2009.
Every writer needs a good editor, whether it's another person or an internal editor who can adequately judge, cut, and rewrite sentences.
Whether it’s email, Twitter, Facebook, or — going back to the ancient days — even business letters and proposals, the single most powerful word in business writing is “you.
Barbara Rozgonyi (photo, left) attended a recent Ragan Corporate Writers and Editors Conference and gleaned "37 sweet writing tips from 7 spectacular speakers.
Dave Johnson offers some tips on "catching typos before you click send.
"There’s all kinds of advice across the web about when to use which app for each small thing that needs doing.
A great list of grammar and writing tools for bloggers and the rest of us.
A great list of grammar and writing tools for bloggers and the rest of us.
An overview to social networking sites & their usage for job search.
This “periodic table of visualization methods” shows dozens of ways to display data, information, concepts, strategies, and more.
Find real-life salary ranges for a wide range of jobs.
Let us now bullet-point our praise for Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein, two Tokyo-based architects who have turned PowerPoint, that fixture of cubicle life, into both art form and competitive sport.
Wetpaint makes easy-to-use wikis and this video was made for use on Wetpaint.
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