Business and Professional Writing: A Basic Guide, Third Edition

Write with Clarity. Communicate with Confidence. Business and Professional Writing is a book that practices what it preaches. The authors deliver direct, engaging guidance on workplace communication with a friendly, no-nonsense approach and realistic examples and practical strategies ensure clarity, concision, courtesy, correctness, and positivity at every turn. The text offers guidelines and templates for business correspondence, reports, promotional materials, job searching, and oral presentations, and covers style, editing, document design, information security, and ethics. Exercises guide students through the process of creating and revising each genre, and helpful tips, reminders, and suggested resources appear throughout. Please note that this edition is particularly well suited to the needs of American students; for Canadian courses, please see Business and Professional Writing: A Basic Guide. Comments “Business and Professional Writing is a comprehensive and practical guide to writing in a wide range of genres…. I appreciate how easy it is to navigate, and I expect that instructors of an array of professional and business communication courses will find it an ideal text for their classes.” — Monica Miller, Middle Georgia State University “Business and Professional Writing presents clear and concise discussions of a wide range of workplace writing tasks. Its strengths lie in providing numerous visual examples to demonstrate formatting, many of which are annotated, and in its use of consistent rhetorical language and concepts so that students will learn skills they can apply to any future business writing tasks. Importantly, all information is conveyed in the plain, straightforward language that the authors promote in the book’s pages.” — Tracey Schneider, Auburn University