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INTRODUCTION
The AMA Handbook of Business Documents is a desktop job aid for all corporate communicators. This book is a collection of guidelines and samples for creating a wide variety of business documents.
In addition to being the authors of the Administrative Assistant’s and Secretary’s Handbook, and The AMA Handbook of Business Writing, we are also the founders of a corporate communications consulting business with over 25 years’experience working for many Fortune 500 companies such as IBM, AT&T, Sony, Chevron, Hewlett-Packard, and Cox Enterprises. In our work, we’ve developed hundreds of business documents including Web sites, brochures, reports, presentations, marketing plans, policy manuals, softwaretutorials,and trainingmaterials. InThe AMA Handbook of Business Documents we take the best of these corporate business writing guidelines and organize them in a way business writers will appreciate.
Readerscaneasilyfindinformationonaparticulardocumentandquicklyget backtotheirwritingproject.Thebookincludesguidelines,tips,andsamples of a wide variety of business documents, including annual reports, brochures, business letters, business plans, grant proposals, mission statements, newsletters, policies, press releases, proposals, résumés, surveys, speeches, training manuals, user guides, and white papers.
We believe The AMA Handbook of Business Documents is an essential desk reference for the following business writers:
■ Corporate communications writers and managers
■ Marketing writers and managers
■ Human resource administrators and managers
■ Sales representatives and managers
■ Training developers and managers
■ Technical writers
■ Grant writers
■ Public relations writers
■ Administrative assistants
Excerpted from THE AMA HANDBOOK OF BUSINESS DOCUMENTS by Kevin Wilson and Jennifer Wauson. Copyright © 2011 by Kevin Wilson and Jennifer Wauson. Published by AMACOM Books, a division of American Management Association, New York, NY. Used with permission. All rights reserved. http://www.amacombooks.org.