Cover Letters, Resumes & Interviews, Business Writing & Communication, Business Writing, Career Development
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Overview
This comprehensive and practical guide provides useful planning tools for successful career planning while presenting a wide variety of workplace writing and speaking tasks.
Logically organized by career steps, this valuable book provides detailed, step-by-step, instructions for producing well-designed business documents, preparing effective presentations, and participating productively in a number of business settings. With different types of communications separated by section, it allows readers to specific information easily and quickly. It also provides the general procedures for producing clear, direct messages in both oral and written communication.
An essential reference for every professional.
Editorials
Booknews
Offers a practical introduction to principles and techniques important to writers in the electronic age, emphasizing technical communication as a professional activity in the workplace. Part I covers fundamentals of technical communication, the writing process, and the social context of communication. Part II looks at visual presentation, with chapters on computer options in graphics and document design. Part III examines technical writing techniques, and Part IV, the core of the text, covers typical writing tasks such as research reports, computer manuals, and electronic documents. Part V covers oral presentations and job applications. Includes chapter activities. This second edition offers expanded examples that incorporate the medical profession, and sections on documenting electronic sources of information, writing for the Web, job listings on the Internet, and ethics. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
December 16, 1997
Publisher
Prentice Hall
Pages
256
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780131577367