Excellence in Business Communication, 13th Edition
Chapter 6. Writing Business Messages
"Do you feel exhausted after speaking in English?
"Do your brainstorming sessions create a drizzle or a flood of ideas?
"One of the keys to sounding more natural in your spoken English is mastering the rhythm of the language.
Everyone experiences the world through unconscious biases of perceptual filters, and too often people are unaware that they are doing so.
"What can we learn about American intonation and sounding natural in English from analyzing a conversation between Google assistant (yes, I'm talking about a robot) and a real person?
"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.
"Inside the world of professional coaching.
"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.
"Think you know the English language?
"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.
"Placing apostrophes is not rocket science.
"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.
"It’s ironic that many schools don’t give lessons on how to study or take notes effectively.
Jennifer Frost of GrammarCheck.
"In this podcast, Coach Kelly Forrister focuses on the best practices of email communications with others, including appropriate use, writing effective subject lines, creating agreed upon response times, reply to all and more.
See the infographic at GrammarCheck.
Jennifer Frost presents the infographic at GrammarCheck.
"As writers, we all have that place in our house where we tend to be more creative and the words just come a little easier for us.
"Emotions and work are a weird thing.
"Are you feeling smart and alert today?
"When is the last time you sent a card or note to a business associate?
Linguist John McWhorter "traces the evolution of five words that have spent millennia drifting from one meaning into another.