Aspiring Writers
Writer
Writer
with Tips from Communications Experts at the Fortune 500
FROM THE PUBLISHER
"Whether it's a quick e-mail, formal memo, or lengthy report, people in
business are expected to express themselves in writing that is clear,
concise and correct. And the skill and polish of your writing style - more
than any other factors - will affect how your audience receives your
message and responds to it." "It's not easy to write well on the job -
especially at a time when the language of business is rapidly evolving.
Should long distance have a hyphen? Should you write e-business,
eBusiness or E-business? Is it proper to refer to a client as senior vice
president or Senior Vice President? Does resume have two accents?
And how do you handle that Web address?" "The Business Style
handbook is today's most comprehensive, practical and easy-to-use
guide for writing effectively on the job. This helpful reference grammar
focuses on the writing issues identified as most important in the
workplace by communications executives from the Fortune 500. Written
in plain English, it is filled with tips and advice for improving your on-the-
job writing skills. The Business Style Handbook provides more than
1,200 A-to-Z entries covering; usage, grammar, punctuation, spelling,
and style." Filled with business-focused guidance plus straight-talking
recommendations from top communications professionals, The Business
Style handbook is the most valuable desktop tool you can buy this year.
Keep it at your side to quickly - and dramatically - improve your
business writing.
SYNOPSIS
Whether it is a letter, e-mail or memo, in business you are called on to
write nearly every day. And the skill and polish of your writing style—
more than any other factors—will affect how your audience receives
your message and responds to it.
It's not easy to write well on the job—especially at a time when the
language of business is rapidly evolving. Should you write e-business,
eBusiness or E-business? Is it proper to refer to a client as senior vice
president or Senior Vice President? Should long distance have a
hyphen? Does résumé have two accents? And how do you handle that
Web address?
The Business Style Handbook is today's most comprehensive, practical
and easy-to-use guide for writing effectively on the job. This helpful
reference grammar focuses on the writing issues identified as most
important in the workplace by communications executives from the
Fortune 500. Written in plain English, it is filled with tips and advice for
improving your on-the-job writing skills. The Business Style Handbook
provides more than 1,200 A-to-Z entries covering:
Usage
Grammar
Punctuation
Spelling
Style
Filled with business-focused guidance plus straight-talking
recommendations from top communications professionals, The Business
Style Handbook will be the most valuable desktop tool you buy this
year. Keep it at your side to quickly—and dramatically—improve your
business writing.
Helen Cunningham and Brenda Greene each have more than 20 years'
experience as business writers and editors. This includes working in the
corporate world as well as in business publishing.
FROM THE CRITICS
Beverly West - Monster.com
For many of us, business writing can be a stumbling block on the road to
professional success. Fortunately, you can keep a number of excellent
references handy to help you become the office Hemingway. These
include The Business Style Handbook.
Mercury Retail - New Zealand
An excellent read. No other book covers this topic with greater clarity
and scope, presented by lively and intelligent authors of tremendous
expertise.
Business Line
"When you write, your credibility is on the line. Good writing matters.
Read this [book] before you write."
National Investor Relations Institute
We like this book because it is the first usage guide we've found that has
an entry for "investor relations." We also like it because it is filled with
business-focused guidance unlike any other usage guide. Written in plain
English, it covers usage, grammar, punctuation, spelling and style. Even
the best writers among us will appreciate its value.
Sky Magazine
The Business Style Handbook is an ambitious undertaking--an effort to
create the authoritative and comprehensive guide to correct spelling,
punctuation, capitalization, word usage and e-etiquette for informed
business writing. Five opening chapters offer tips for clear and effective
writing. More than 200 pages of A-Z entries follow.
Nonfiction
FROM THE PUBLISHER
On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the
warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to
write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost
everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet. Whether you want to
write about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the
arts or about yourself in the increasingly popular memoir genre, On Writing
Well offers you fundamental priciples as well as the insights of a
distinguished writer and teacher. With more than a million copies sole, this
volume has stood the test of time and remains a valuable resource for
writers and would-be writers.
FROM OUR EDITORS
Whether you want to write a whodunit, a howdunit, or even a whydunit,
you have to have suspense. One of the finest suspense novelists in
existence, Patricia Highsmith, has analyzed the basic components in creating
suspense and gathered them together in an easy-to-read book: Plotting and
Writing Suspense Fiction. Learn how to make your plots as gripping as
possible, create interesting characters, and utilize the basic elements of
suspense to make your mystery stand out from the rest.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Patricia Highsmith, author of Strangers on a Train, The Talented Mr. Ripley,
Found in the Street, and many other books, is known as one of the finest
suspense novelists. In this book, she analyzes the key elements of suspense
fiction, drawing upon her own experience in four decades as a working
writer. Among other topics, she talks about: how to develop a complete
story from an idea; what makes a plot gripping; the use (and abuse) of
coincidence; characterization and the "likable criminal"; going from first draft
to final draft; and writing the suspense short story.
Throughout the book, Highsmith illustrates her points with plentiful examples
from her own work, and by discussing her own inspirations, false starts,
dead ends, successes, and failures, she presents a lively and highly readable
picture of the novelist at work.
Anyone who wishes to write crime and suspense fiction, or who enjoys
reading it, will find this book an insightful guide to the craft and art of a
modern master.