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"Learn how to write for the results you want every time, in every medium! Do you wish you could write better? In today's business world, good writing is key to success in just about every endeavor. Writing is how you connect with colleagues, supervisors, clients, partners, employees, and people you've never met. No wonder strong writers win the jobs, promotions, and contracts. Business Writing For Dummies shows you, from the ground up, how to create...
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"Writing Without Bullshit is the first comprehensive guide to writing for today's world: a noisy environment where everyone reads what you write on a screen. The average news story now gets only 36 seconds of attention. Unless you change how you write, your emails, reports, and Web copy don't stand a chance. In this practical and witty book, you'll learn to front-load your writing with pithy titles, subject lines, and opening sentences. You'll acquire...
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Anyone who wants to be heard is facing an epic challenge--people are drowning in a sea of words. How do you get your audience to pay attention? By learning to say a lot more with a lot less and punch through the noise. By learning Smart Brevity.
"Brevity is confidence. Length is fear. This is the guiding principle of Smart Brevity, a communication formula built by Axios journalists to prioritize essential news and information, explain its impact...
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Lean. Trim. Clear. Concrete. In a world where decisions are made between two rings of a cell phone, this is what a successful business proposal must be. It's a lesson entrepreneur Patrick Riley learned after one too many potential partners ignored his painstaking (but long and forbidding) proposals. And now, in The One-Page Proposal, he shares his secret strategy -- the one that he has parlayed into a multimillion-dollar business career. Riley describes...
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Self-Counsel Press
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"The Content Planner helps business writers plan, create and publish content to a website. Readers know the importance of publishing frequent, unique content to their blog but they struggle to take action. Some are overwhelmed at the prospect of brainstorming topics to write about let alone writing and publishing the content. Others are unable to organize their ideas into a viable publishing schedule and end up publishing nothing. By using an editorial...
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Columbia University Press
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"This book will show aspiring financial journalists as well as business professionals and students. how to excel in business/financial journalism and related communication fields at a time when the media landscape is changing rapidly and dramatically. The book will offer clear and concise advice on how to report, write, edit and produce multimedia content for today's busy readers, listeners and viewers. It will include an online companion so that...
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W. W. Norton & Company
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[2019]
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English
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"A winning combination of how-to guide and reference work, The Only Business Writing Book You'll Ever Need addresses a wide-ranging spectrum of business communication with its straightforward seven-step method. These easy-to-follow steps save you time from start to finish, and helpful checklists will boost your confidence as they keep you on track. You'll learn to promote yourself and your ideas clearly and concisely--whether putting together a persuasive...
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2015.
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"So much of success in business depends on writing well. From resumes to reports, proposals to presentations, Writing Well for Business Success will help you communicate your ideas clearly, quickly and effectively. It will help you distill your message into a well-targeted statement; ace the elements of style; write what you want to say in emails, business plans and more; master the tricks of editing yourself. Presented in author Sandra Lamb's lighthearted...
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc
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[2024]
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"This essential guide helps business writers and other professionals learn the strengths and weaknesses of AI as a writing assistant. You'll discover how AI can help you by chopping through writer's block, drafting an outline, generating headlines and titles, producing meaningful text, maintaining consistency, proofreading and editing, and optimizing content for search engines. Employees in all industries spend enormous amounts of energy writing,...
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"Business Reports for Busy People is a comprehensive guide filled with a wide range of samples and templates that can be customized to produce professional-looking, clear, and concise reports for virtually any need, including easily customizable Microsoft Word templates and boilerplate text on an interactive CD-Rom. Business Reports for Busy People features the most commonly used business reports, including: Policies and Procedures, HR Assessments,...
15) How to get ideas
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This new expanded second edition shows you-no matter your age or skill, your job or training-how to come up with more ideas, faster and easier.
Jack Foster's simple five-step technique for solving problems and getting ideas takes the mystery and anxiety out of the idea-generating process. It's a proven process that works. You'll learn to condition your mind to become "idea-prone," utilize your sense of humor, develop your curiosity, visualize your...
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"Learn the keys to energizing your writing, engaging readers, and breaking out with influence. What good will it do to skillfully craft a written argument if you lose your audience? Simple emails, formal reports, blogs, presentations, articles-they needpunch to gain influence. Clear structure and logic alone won't do. To engage readers, you need to make mentally stimulating choices in language-choices that electrify your readers' mental hotspots"--...
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Revised and updated for the newest digital platforms—the classic guide to business writing style and protocols
While retaining all the valuable information that has made The Business Style Handbook a modern classic, the second edition provides new words, phrases and guidance to help you express yourself clearly, confidently and correctly on any digital platform.
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"This is a book for everyone who writes or approves copy: copywriters, multichannel marketers, creative directors, freelance writers, marketing managers ... even small business owners and information marketers. It reveals dozens of copywriting techniques that can help you write both print and online ads, emails, and websites that are clear, persuasive, and get more attention-and sell more products. Among the tips revealed: *8 headlines that work--and...
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Princeton University Press
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"Based on her course at the Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs, Martha Coven presents a crisp, brief, up-to-date introduction to clear and compelling writing for future professionals. Coven covers the basics of developing a professional style and writing and revising first and successive drafts. She then covers common types of professional writing, including correspondence, memos, proposals, plans, and reports, critical...
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2024.
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"Getting a job means successfully navigating the application process, and today that requires the right mindset--and the skills to convey it to a potential employer. You need to focus on the organization's needs, not your own, often a challenge for recent and soon-to-be college graduates. In this book, writing professor Rachel Toor shows you how to identify those needs, decide whether you are a good match for a job, and then tell a clear, concise,...