Successful Writing at Work Concise

by Kolin, Philip C.

• ISBN13: 9780618948642
• ISBN10: 0618948643
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-22
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This user-friendly, compact text presents the most necessary, useful skills and strategies for successful workplace writing. Based on the successful parent text, Successful Writing at Work, 8/e, the Concise Edition maintains a practical approach, an abundance of realistic situations and problems, real-world examples, and detailed guidelines for drafting, editing, and producing professional documents and graphics. The Second Edition features a contemporary, open, and user-friendly design, including a wider trim size to allow for marginal note-taking and many new and up-to-date visuals.

Table of Contents

Backgrounds

Getting Started: Writing and Your Career

Writing--An Essential

Job Skill

Writing for the Global Marketplace

Four Keys to Effective

Writing Characteristics of Job-Related

Writing Ethical

Writing in the Workplace

The Writing Process and Collaboration at Work

What Writing

Is Not and Is Researching

Planning

Drafting

Revising

Editing

Collaboration Is Crucial to the Writing

Process Seven

Guidelines for Successful Group

Writing Sources of Conflict in Group

Dynamics and How to Solve Them

Collaborating Online

Correspondence

Writing Memos

Faxes, and E-Mails

What Memos

Faxes, and E-Mails

Have in Common

Memos Faxes E-Mail

Writing Letters

Letters in the Age of the Internet

Letter Formats

Guidelines on Printing Your Letters

Parts of a Letter Organizing a Standard

Business Letter

Making a Good Impression on Your Reader

Types of Business Letters

Inquiry Letters Special Request

Letters Sales

Letters Customer

Relations Letters

International Business Correspondence

How to Get a Job

R?sum?s, Letters of Application, and Interviews

Steps the Employer

Takes to Hire

Steps to Follow to Get Hired

Analyzing Your Strengths

Looking in the Right Places for a Job

Preparing a R?sum?

Letters of Application Going to an Interview

Preparing Documents and Visuals

Designing Successful

Documents and Visuals Organizing

Information Visually

The ABCs of Print Document

Design Three Rules of Effective

Page Design: A Wrap-Up

The Purpose of Visuals

Two Categories of Visuals

Tables Figures

Using Visual Ethically

Using Appropriate Visuals for International Audiences

Writing Instructions and Procedures

Instructions and Your Job

Why Instructions

Are Important

The Variety of Instructions

A Brief Overview

Assessing and Meeting Your Audience's

Needs The Process of Writing Instructions

Using the Right Style

Using Visuals Effectively

The Five Parts of Instructions

Model of Full Set of Instructions

Writing Procedures for Policies and Regulations

Some Final Advice

Writing Effective

Short Reports and Proposals

Why Short Reports

Are Important Types of Short Reports

Guidelines for Writing Short Reports

Periodic Reports Sales Reports

Progress Reports Trip/Travel Reports

Incident Reports Writing

Successful Proposals

Guidelines for Writing

Successful Proposals

Internal Proposals

Sales Proposals

Writing Careful

Long Reports

Characteristics of a Long Report

The Process of Writing a Long Report

Parts of a Long Report

The Whys and Hows of Documentation

A Model Long Report

Making Successful Presentations at Work Types of Presentations

Informal Briefings Formal Presentations

Analyzing Your Audience

The Parts of Formal Presentations

Presentation Software Noncomputerized Presentations

Rehearsing Your Presentation

Delivering Your Presentation

Evaluating Presentations

A Writer's Brief Guide to Paragraphs

Sentences, and Words Paragraphs

Sentences Words

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