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Title: The Business Style Handbook: An A-to-Z Guide for Writing on the Job with Tips from Communications Experts at the Fortune 500 by Helen Cunningham, Brenda Greene ISBN: 0-07-138230-5 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies Pub. Date: 12 February, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.78 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A nice find
Comment: As an English major, I get carried away with language -- occasionally at the expense of my "audience." An adviser at the Career Services department suggested that I take a look at the The Business Style Handbook. I was surprised to learn so much about writing in a "business" writing book. And
the A-to-Z section has helped me clean up my prose so that when I send out my cover letters and resumes they don't sound like I've spent the last sixteen years of my life in a classroom (even though I have).
Rating: 3
Summary: Disappointing--Useful if You Didn't Learn English Well
Comment:
I was very disappointed by this book, which came highly recommended. The other book recommended by the same source, Revising Business Prose by Richard Lanham, is much more suited to helping an already educated (and the over-educated) person focus their writing.
This book is essentially a double-spaced simpleton's dictionary. It lost me right away when I happened upon the entry "bullion Gold of silver in bar form. Do not confuse with boullion, a clear broth with seasoning." Good heavens. If you do not know the difference, this is the book for you. It has hundreds of other similarly inane examples, as I found in going over it as carefully as possible, trying to understand why on earth it had been recommended to me.
Rating: 5
Summary: Write to the Point
Comment: This book may be the handiest and clearest book of tips on basic business writing I've read in a long time. The book's tips on writing clearly and for the reader of the office memo or e-mail are direct, short and to the point.
It doesn't waste words but it doesn't omit a lot of topics, either. For example, a memo writer is reminded to "write as you speak--if you speak clearly." Thousands, no, millions, of words have been devoted to this topic. This one sentence sums it up nicely.
Some may quibble with minor points in the book. For example, it advises readers not to capitalize the "The" in newspaper names because some papers use a "the" and some don't. To my way of thinking (and training), that's a question easily resolved by finding out what the newspaper uses. But this is a tiny point.
I much prefer the authors' valuable and wide-ranging bits of information:
khan: lowercase this term, which is a title for a ruler, an official or an important person in India and some central Asian countries.
c.o.d.: Use c.o.d. with periods for all references. It stands for cash on delivery. Without periods, it could be confused with the word cod, as in fish.
saccharin/saccharine: Often misspelled. The first is a sugar substitute; the second means overly sweet.
And so on, touching on topics from A to Z, as billed. I highly recommend this book.
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Title: Effective Business Writing: A Guide for Those Who Write on the Job by Maryann V. Piotrowski ISBN: 0062733818 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 01 July, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Elements of Business Writing: A Guide to Writing Clear, Concise Letters, Memos, Reports, Proposals, and Other Business Documents by Gary Blake, Robert W. Bly ISBN: 0020080956 Publisher: Longman Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Get to the Point! Painless Advice for Writing Memos, Letters and E-mails Your Colleagues and Clients Will Understand by Elizabeth Danziger ISBN: 0609807609 Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA) Pub. Date: 11 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Over 300 Successful Business Letters for All Occasions by Alan Bond, Alan J. Bond ISBN: 0764103229 Publisher: Barron's Educational Series Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr., E.B. White, Roger Angell ISBN: 020530902X Publisher: Longman Publishing Group Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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