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The Resource Business writing for dummies, by Natalie Canavor
Business writing for dummies, by Natalie Canavor
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The item Business writing for dummies, by Natalie Canavor represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item Business writing for dummies, by Natalie Canavor represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Edition
- Second edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
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- Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; About This Book; Foolish Assumptions; How This Book Is Organized; Part 1: Winning with Writing; Part 2: Applying Your Skills to Business Messages and Documents; Part 3: Writing to Present Yourself Effectively; Part 4: Evolving Your Writing for Online Media; Part 5: Extending Your Writing Skills; Part 6: The Part of Tens; Icons Used in This Book; Beyond the Book; Where to Go from Here; Part 1 Winning with Writing; Chapter 1 Make Writing Your Not-So-Secret Weapon; Putting Good Writing to Work for You
- Planning and Structuring Every MessageApplying the Goal-Plus-Audience Strategy to All Business Needs; Succeeding with email, letters, and business documents; Writing for the spoken word; Writing online: From websites to blogs to tweets; Special purpose writing; Taking the global perspective; Chapter 2 Planning Your Message Every Time; Adopting the Plan-Draft-Edit Principle; Fine-Tuning Your Plan: Your Goals and Audience; Defining your goal; Defining your audience; Brainstorming the best content for your purpose; Writing to groups and strangers; Imagining your readers; Making People Care
- Connecting instantly with your readerFocusing on what's-in-it-for-me; Highlighting benefits, not features; Finding the concrete, limiting the abstract; Choosing Your Written Voice: Tone; Aligning tone with the occasion, relationship, and culture; Writing as your authentic self; Smiling when you say it; Using Relationship-Building Techniques; Showing active caring and respect; Personalizing what you write; Framing messages with "you" not "I"; Chapter 3 Making Your Writing Work: The Basics; Stepping into Twenty-First-Century Writing Style; Aiming for a clear, simple style
- Applying readability guidelinesFinding the right rhythm; Achieving a conversational tone; Energizing Your Language; Relying on everyday wording; Choosing reader-friendly words; Focusing on the real and concrete; Finding action verbs; Crafting comparisons to help readers; Employing Reader-Friendly Graphic Techniques; Building in white space; Choosing a typeface; Keeping colors simple; Adding effective graphics; Breaking space up with sidebars, boxes, and lists; Chapter 4 Self-Editing: Professional Ways to Improve Your Work; Changing Hats: From Writer to Editor; Choosing a way to edit
- Distancing yourself from what you writeReviewing the Big and Small Pictures; Assessing content success; Assessing the effectiveness of your language; Avoiding telltale up-down-up inflection; Looking for repeat word endings; Pruning prepositions; Cutting all non-contributing words; Moving from Passive to Active; Thinking "action"; Trimming "there is" and "there are"; Cutting the haves and have nots; Using the passive deliberately; Sidestepping Jargon, Clichés, and Extra Modifiers; Reining in jargon; Cooling the clichés; Minimizing modifiers; Chapter 5 Fixing Common Writing Problems
- Isbn
- 9781119369011
- Label
- Business writing for dummies
- Title
- Business writing for dummies
- Statement of responsibility
- by Natalie Canavor
- Language
- eng
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1942-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Canavor, Natalie
- Dewey number
- 808.06665
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HF5718.3
- LC item number
- .C3647 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- Series statement
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- Learning made easy
- --For dummies
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Business writing
- Business communication
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric
- REFERENCE / Writing Skills
- Business communication
- Business writing
- Label
- Business writing for dummies, by Natalie Canavor
- Note
- Includes index
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
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- Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; About This Book; Foolish Assumptions; How This Book Is Organized; Part 1: Winning with Writing; Part 2: Applying Your Skills to Business Messages and Documents; Part 3: Writing to Present Yourself Effectively; Part 4: Evolving Your Writing for Online Media; Part 5: Extending Your Writing Skills; Part 6: The Part of Tens; Icons Used in This Book; Beyond the Book; Where to Go from Here; Part 1 Winning with Writing; Chapter 1 Make Writing Your Not-So-Secret Weapon; Putting Good Writing to Work for You
- Planning and Structuring Every MessageApplying the Goal-Plus-Audience Strategy to All Business Needs; Succeeding with email, letters, and business documents; Writing for the spoken word; Writing online: From websites to blogs to tweets; Special purpose writing; Taking the global perspective; Chapter 2 Planning Your Message Every Time; Adopting the Plan-Draft-Edit Principle; Fine-Tuning Your Plan: Your Goals and Audience; Defining your goal; Defining your audience; Brainstorming the best content for your purpose; Writing to groups and strangers; Imagining your readers; Making People Care
- Connecting instantly with your readerFocusing on what's-in-it-for-me; Highlighting benefits, not features; Finding the concrete, limiting the abstract; Choosing Your Written Voice: Tone; Aligning tone with the occasion, relationship, and culture; Writing as your authentic self; Smiling when you say it; Using Relationship-Building Techniques; Showing active caring and respect; Personalizing what you write; Framing messages with "you" not "I"; Chapter 3 Making Your Writing Work: The Basics; Stepping into Twenty-First-Century Writing Style; Aiming for a clear, simple style
- Applying readability guidelinesFinding the right rhythm; Achieving a conversational tone; Energizing Your Language; Relying on everyday wording; Choosing reader-friendly words; Focusing on the real and concrete; Finding action verbs; Crafting comparisons to help readers; Employing Reader-Friendly Graphic Techniques; Building in white space; Choosing a typeface; Keeping colors simple; Adding effective graphics; Breaking space up with sidebars, boxes, and lists; Chapter 4 Self-Editing: Professional Ways to Improve Your Work; Changing Hats: From Writer to Editor; Choosing a way to edit
- Distancing yourself from what you writeReviewing the Big and Small Pictures; Assessing content success; Assessing the effectiveness of your language; Avoiding telltale up-down-up inflection; Looking for repeat word endings; Pruning prepositions; Cutting all non-contributing words; Moving from Passive to Active; Thinking "action"; Trimming "there is" and "there are"; Cutting the haves and have nots; Using the passive deliberately; Sidestepping Jargon, Clichés, and Extra Modifiers; Reining in jargon; Cooling the clichés; Minimizing modifiers; Chapter 5 Fixing Common Writing Problems
- Control code
- ocn981912228
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- Second edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781119369011
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Quality assurance targets
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- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- F39A7F92-DA11-4CDD-89AC-B69FB78421F4
- System control number
- (OCoLC)981912228
- Label
- Business writing for dummies, by Natalie Canavor
- Note
- Includes index
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; About This Book; Foolish Assumptions; How This Book Is Organized; Part 1: Winning with Writing; Part 2: Applying Your Skills to Business Messages and Documents; Part 3: Writing to Present Yourself Effectively; Part 4: Evolving Your Writing for Online Media; Part 5: Extending Your Writing Skills; Part 6: The Part of Tens; Icons Used in This Book; Beyond the Book; Where to Go from Here; Part 1 Winning with Writing; Chapter 1 Make Writing Your Not-So-Secret Weapon; Putting Good Writing to Work for You
- Planning and Structuring Every MessageApplying the Goal-Plus-Audience Strategy to All Business Needs; Succeeding with email, letters, and business documents; Writing for the spoken word; Writing online: From websites to blogs to tweets; Special purpose writing; Taking the global perspective; Chapter 2 Planning Your Message Every Time; Adopting the Plan-Draft-Edit Principle; Fine-Tuning Your Plan: Your Goals and Audience; Defining your goal; Defining your audience; Brainstorming the best content for your purpose; Writing to groups and strangers; Imagining your readers; Making People Care
- Connecting instantly with your readerFocusing on what's-in-it-for-me; Highlighting benefits, not features; Finding the concrete, limiting the abstract; Choosing Your Written Voice: Tone; Aligning tone with the occasion, relationship, and culture; Writing as your authentic self; Smiling when you say it; Using Relationship-Building Techniques; Showing active caring and respect; Personalizing what you write; Framing messages with "you" not "I"; Chapter 3 Making Your Writing Work: The Basics; Stepping into Twenty-First-Century Writing Style; Aiming for a clear, simple style
- Applying readability guidelinesFinding the right rhythm; Achieving a conversational tone; Energizing Your Language; Relying on everyday wording; Choosing reader-friendly words; Focusing on the real and concrete; Finding action verbs; Crafting comparisons to help readers; Employing Reader-Friendly Graphic Techniques; Building in white space; Choosing a typeface; Keeping colors simple; Adding effective graphics; Breaking space up with sidebars, boxes, and lists; Chapter 4 Self-Editing: Professional Ways to Improve Your Work; Changing Hats: From Writer to Editor; Choosing a way to edit
- Distancing yourself from what you writeReviewing the Big and Small Pictures; Assessing content success; Assessing the effectiveness of your language; Avoiding telltale up-down-up inflection; Looking for repeat word endings; Pruning prepositions; Cutting all non-contributing words; Moving from Passive to Active; Thinking "action"; Trimming "there is" and "there are"; Cutting the haves and have nots; Using the passive deliberately; Sidestepping Jargon, Clichés, and Extra Modifiers; Reining in jargon; Cooling the clichés; Minimizing modifiers; Chapter 5 Fixing Common Writing Problems
- Control code
- ocn981912228
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- Second edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781119369011
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- F39A7F92-DA11-4CDD-89AC-B69FB78421F4
- System control number
- (OCoLC)981912228
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