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The Quotable Writer: Words of Wisdom from Mark Twain, Aristotle, Oscar Wilde, Robert Frost, Eric Jong, and More
 | asin: 0071355766 binding: Hardcover list price: $14.95 USD amazon price: $14.95 |
"The Quotable Writer taps the power of words for the wordsmiths who live and make their living by them. Dip into it and see if you don't find yourself driven to write some yourself." David A. Fryxell, editorial director and nonfiction columnist for Writer's Digest, and author of How to Write Fast (While Writing Well) and Elements of Article Writing: Structure and Flow William A. Gordon has created a Barlett's of the literary life with The Quotable Writer, a collection of roughly a thousand of the best things ever said or written by and about writers and writing. read more »
Business Writing Skills (A take-charge assistant book)
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Many people have convinced themselves that writing skills are either beyond them, or unnecessary, in the casual world of the '90s. But the reality is, if you're going to make it in the business world, you have to know how to write well. In fact, few things can hurt a reputation more than a poorly written letter or memo. Business Writing Skills takes the attitude that writing is easier than most people think, and quickly sets about proving that point. read more »
Essential Business Letters: 1500 Ways to Say It Right (Socrates Answers)
 | asin: 1595462414 binding: Paperback list price: $19.95 USD amazon price: $19.95 USD |
Imagine the convenience of having hundreds of clear, concise and competent business letters at your immediate disposal! read more »
401 Great Letters
 | author: Kim Komando asin: 1556238339 binding: Paperback list price: $27.00 USD amazon price: $27.00 |
This book of letters transcends any previosuly published book of this nature by providing fill-in-the-blank templates for over 400 real-life, real-issues letters. The disk that is available with the templates already created is also a tremendous time-saver!
The Complete Human Resources Writing Guide
 | author: Diane Arthur asin: 0814403255 binding: Loose Leaf list price: $99.95 USD amazon price: $99.95 |
Letters, forms, policies, evaluations, and handbooks-these are just a few of the documents that HR professionals produce every day. And it's not just the quantity that counts, it's the clarity and accuracy of the communications that are key. Here's the first writing manual designed especially for HR professionals. It combines clear, complete, how-to-do-it guidelines on writing with more than 100 actual samples of HR documents. Readers discover how to: ** master the 7 stages of writing, from outline to revision read more »
Adams Resume Almanac
 | author: Richard Wallace asin: 1593372914 binding: Paperback list price: $17.95 USD amazon price: $12.21 USD |
A revised edition of the most comprehensive resume guide on the market! A must for the successful job search, The Adams Resume Almanac, 2nd Edition contains everything a candidate needs to know in order to craft a compelling, job-winning resume. Whether a first-time job hunter starting with a blank page, or a seasoned professional with a long story to tell, the candidate will find 600 examples of resumes appropriate to every situation.
The Plain English Approach to Business Writing
 | author: Edward P. Bailey Jr. Larry Bailey asin: 0195115651 binding: Paperback list price: $15.95 USD amazon price: $10.85 USD |
In offices across America, the Masters of Gobbledygook are hard at work. They're bombarding in-boxes with those long, confusing memos that colleagues don't have the patience to read--and bosses don't have the time to rewrite. They use words like "commence" or "prior to" instead of"begin" or "before." They bury their main point somewhere in the last paragraph--and take two pages to get there. Everybody knows one of them; in fact, you may even be one of them. But now there's help for anyone who's ever fallen prey to businessese, academese, legalese, or any other "ese" when read more »
The New Oxford Guide to Writing
 | author: Thomas S. Kane asin: 0195090594 binding: Paperback list price: $19.95 USD amazon price: $13.57 USD |
Many books on writing tell you how to think more creatively, how to conjure up an idea from scratch. Many, once you have an idea, show you how to express it clearly and elegantly. And many handbooks offer reliable advice on the use of commas, semicolons, and so forth. But The New OxfordGuide to Writing does all three, so that no matter where you find yourself in the writing process--from the daunting look of a blank page, to the rough draft that needs shaping, to the small but important questions of punctuation--you will find what you need in one handy volume. read more »
