Business Writing Makeovers

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Overview

Did you know that interoffice correspondence often gets tossed away before it's read? Letters, memos, proposals, and reports that are too long, unfocused, ungrammatical, and unintelligible are not taken seriously and leave a negative impression about the writer.

Good writing, however, can make all the difference, and Business Writing Makeovers shows you exactly how to impress your colleagues and clients and, at the same time, boost your career. Hawley Roddick presents corporate writing seminars and is an expert in the field. She makes writing easy by providing typically flawed samples, doing a complete makeover, and giving you both a checklist describing the improvements and a generic ...

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Overview

Did you know that interoffice correspondence often gets tossed away before it's read? Letters, memos, proposals, and reports that are too long, unfocused, ungrammatical, and unintelligible are not taken seriously and leave a negative impression about the writer.

Good writing, however, can make all the difference, and Business Writing Makeovers shows you exactly how to impress your colleagues and clients and, at the same time, boost your career. Hawley Roddick presents corporate writing seminars and is an expert in the field. She makes writing easy by providing typically flawed samples, doing a complete makeover, and giving you both a checklist describing the improvements and a generic formula for similar correspondence. It's easier than you might imagine to create better:
*Requests for a raise or promotion
*Reports and proposals
*Appeals for support
*Thank-you and sympathy notes
*Meeting minutes
*Apologies to clients or colleagues
*Sales correspondence
*E-mails inside and outside your organization
*Other kinds of important correspondence

With Business Writing Makeovers as your guide, you'll actually enjoy the act of communicating more effectively with your colleagues and clients!

Hawley Roddick is an accomplished business editor and writing consultant. The clients she has worked with include distinguished Fortune 500 companies around the nation. The author of Writing That Means Business and other books and articles, she lives in Santa Barbara, CA.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781450208840
  • Publisher: iUniverse, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 3/2/2011
  • Pages: 288
  • Sales rank: 914,632
  • Product dimensions: 0.65 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 6.00 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1:Get or Take Action
The Job
Inside the Organization
Clients, Customers, and Others
Chapter 2: Provide Information
Inside the Organization: Announcements and Notices
Clients, Customers, and Others: Announcements and Notices
Short Reports
Chapter 3: Cultivate or Give Support
Inside the Organization
Clients, Customers, and Others
Chapter Four: Promote Good Will
Inside the Organization
Clients, Customers, and Others

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