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Strategic planning in a government organization: the experience of the technical information division at NRaD. (Research,
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This digital document is an article from Technical Communication, published by Society for Technical Communication on November 1, 1997. The length of the article is 3216 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. read more »
Developing Successful Grants
 | author: Mike DuBose Martha Davis Anne Black asin: 0975321226 binding: Paperback |
As president of Research Associates, a nationally recognized grants development and training firm, Mike DuBose brings readers an easy-to-understand book that reveals many of his company's tips on how to find, write, and evaluate successful grant programs. With more than 50 years' combined experience among them, DuBose and co-authors, Anne Black and Martha Davis, are three of the country's most successful grantwriters, securing more than $200 million in grants with a success rate of 90 percent. read more »
Writing with Style (Speak-Write Series)
 | author: Rebecca Stott Simon Avery asin: 0582382424 binding: Paperback list price: $18.80 USD amazon price: $18.80 USD |
This is a practical book designed to be used by writers of all kinds to develop their own writing skills. It shows that advanced writing skills are best learned from studying the prose styles and techniques of already established writers and reveals the many small-scale changes that a writer can make to a text in order to achieve certain effects. Provides general principles for effective prose writing. Focus is highly practical and geared to different styles of everyday writing and examples are drawn from a range of different contexts, cultures and historical periods. read more »
An Anatomy of Trade in Medieval Writing: Value, Consent, And Community
 | author: Lianna Farber asin: 0801444128 binding: Hardcover list price: $39.95 USD amazon price: $39.95 USD |
Economics, in our modern sense of the term, was not a discipline in the Middle Ages, although the history of economic thought is often written as though it were. Lianna Farber restores the core economic concept of trade to its medieval contexts, showing that it contains three component parts: value, consent, and community. Medieval writing about trade not only relies on these elements, it presents them as unproblematic. By addressing texts in which each element of trade is discussed directly, Farber demonstrates that this straightforward picture is falsely reassuring. read more »
Competitive communication: Classical rhetoric for modern business (College custom series)
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Competitive Communication offers the first full-length treatment of the classical art of rhetoric with applications to the day-to-day needs of modern managers. Based on the belief that clearly reasoned persuasion is indispensable to professionals who must convince others of their points ofview, this text reveals implicit, competitive dimensions of communication to those familiar with contemporary business practices. Concentrating on argumentation--which is viewed both as a process of inquiry and as an act of persuasion--the author reviews principles of reasoning that were central to read more »
Six Women's Slave Narratives (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
 | asin: 0195052625 binding: Hardcover list price: $45.00 USD amazon price: $45.00 USD |
Written by six black women, these stories embody most of the predominant themes and narrative forms found in African-American women's autobiographies from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (1831), the first female slave narrative from the Americas, recounts one woman's suffering and courage in the pursuit of freedom. The Story of Mattie J. Jackson (1866) not only tells of a quest for personal freedom, but also concludes with a family reunion in the North after the Civil War. read more »
Modern Legal Drafting: A Guide to Using Clearer Language (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)
 | author: Peter Butt Richard Castle asin: 0521001862 binding: Paperback list price: $22.99 USD amazon price: $22.99 |
This book reveals how and why traditional legal language has developed some of the peculiar characteristics that sometimes make legal documents inaccessible to users. It examines recent reforms in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and North America, and provides a step-by-step guide to drafting in a modern style. Readers of the book will be able to make their writing clearer and their legal documents more useful to clients and colleagues.
Survival Writing for Business
 | author: Stephen D. Gladis asin: 0874258561 binding: Paperback list price: $14.95 USD amazon price: $14.95 USD |
To write well, you need to keep it clear and concise. But for many who struggle with writing reports, memos, e-mails, and other necessary correspondence on the job, that’s easier said than done. This no-nonsense book is a virtual lifeline to writing success. Author Steve Gladis has been a writer all his life. He has published numerous magazine and journal articles as well as 11 books. Survival Writing for Business presents, in an easy-to-follow format, his top tips for writing clearly and briefly. read more »
