Business Communication Essentials, 7th Ed.
Chapter 4. Writing Business Messages
Aja Frost and TheMuse.
"Amit Agarwal is the founder of Digital Inspiration, a popular tech & how-to website since 2004.
"Educators are often admonished to design work that 'leaves the classroom.
"For word nerds everywhere (this author included) the yearly additions to the Associated Press Stylebook are always met with great intrigue.
"There are many different ways of telling a story, but everything starts with an idea.
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"I went out with a guy based on his use of dashes once.
Farhad Manjoo (photo, left) doesn't like it when people put two spaces after a period.
Bianca Nogrady reports on the topic over at ABC Science (Australian Broadcasting Corporation's online gateway to science).
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"There’s nothing more irritating to a pedant’s ear than someone saying “mischievious” instead of “mischievous,” and nothing more embarrassing than realizing you’ve been pronouncing the word mischievous with an extra i for your whole life.
Jennifer Frost presents an infographic on the topic.
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Sig Ueland presents the tools at PracticalEcommerce.
"A friend of mine received an invitation to interview at a company.
"All it takes is a single tweet or text for some people to reveal their poor grasp of the English language.
"Want to make a better first impression and engender positive feelings that last a long time?
Nancy Duarte covers a recent speech by Emma Watson given at the United Nations Headquarters.
7-33: Britax has apparently removed the detailed information about side-impact crashes from its website.
The free ebook and a pair of PowerPoint templates will help you make more-effective slide-document hybrids.
10-31: USA Hockey
9-34: Whole Foods Market
9-39: USA Water Polo
9-42: Curves
8-32: JetBlue Twitter account
8-33: Lee Valley Tools
8-39: Yelp
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