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THE BUSINESS OF WRITING is a user-friendly book on written communication, intended for tertiary students in business courses. The authors all teach and work with students on a day-to-day basis and so are very familiar with students' needs, particularly that of being able to communicate well in a business environment. The book provides a comprehensive coverage of the tasks and the associated skills that are required in all business course writing. Numerous examples and illustrations have been provided throughout. This is the third edition of this very popular text. All chapters have been revised, improved and updated, new content has been added, and the layout has been enlivened by the use of a second colour and a more open format. This book covers: Reviewing the literature - writing summaries, critiques, annotated bibliographies, literature reviews; Writing essays; Writing reports; Analysing case studies; Taking exams; Writing business letters, memos, and e-mails, and making presentations; Referencing; Using tables and figures.
The scientific article must be written in a scientific format and may seem confusing for tertiary students and young researchers, especially for the beginning science writer due to its rigid structure which is so different from writing humanities. One of the reasons for using this format is that it is a means of efficiently communicating scientific findings to a broad community of scientists in a uniform manner. Writing a technical article or research paper is a challenging endeavour for students and young researchers. Publishing your first technical article or research paper requires observation of some essential guidelines. Hence the purpose of this book is to provide basic guidelines to tertiary students and young researchers using this user-friendly format to help in writing a scientific article. This book focuses on the essential steps for the publication of a technical article and research paper for tertiary students and young researchers
Winner of ABC's award for Distinguished Publication for 2006 This book explores effective written communication across cultures both theoretically and practically. Specifically it conceptualizes cross-cultural genre study and compares English and Chinese business writing collected from Australia, New Zealand and China. It is also one of those inspired by contrastive rhetoric but has contributed innovatively and uniquely by incorporating research findings from genre analysis, in particular, the sociocognitive genre perspective into this cross-cultural study. On the one hand, the endeavor represents an in-depth theoretical exploration by considering not only discourse community and cognitive s...
UNIT – I 1. Note-Making and Bulleting, 2. Comprehension, 3. Precis-Writing, UNIT - II 4. Report Writing, 5. Status Report, 6. Analytical Report, 7. Inquiry Report, 8. Newspaper Report, 9. Business Report, UNIT – III 10. Official Correspondence, 11. Application Letters, 12. Cover Letters, 13. Memorandum [MEMO], 14. Demi-Official Letters, 15. Business Letters, 16. Persuasive Letters : Sales Letters and Collection Letters, 17. Claim Letters, 18. Adjustment Letters, 19. Credit Letters, 20. Banking and Insurance Correspondence, 21. Quotation and Order Letters, 22. Enquiry Letters, 23. Good and Bad News Letters, 24. E-mail Correspondence
This book transcends current research on writing by relating written text to the cognitive and social processes that create and change it. It includes key features such as: reciprocity as a principle of discourse; language development as socialization; context, explicitness, genre, topic, and comment as concepts in discourse analysis; and writing and reading as social processes.
A two-year course for higher secondary students that trains them in writing in English for a wide variety of purposes, whether they intend taking up a job or pursuing their studies.