The Only Business Writing Book You'll Ever Need
by Laura Brown (Author), Rich Karlgaard (Foreword)

About the Author
Laura Brown, PhD, has taught writing to just about everyone―from corporate executives to college students―in her thirty years as a business writing coach. The author of The Only Business Writing Book You'll Ever Need and How to Write Anything: A Complete Guide, she lives in New York.

About this book
A must-have guide for writing at work, with practical applications for getting your point across quickly, coherently, and efficiently.
A winning combination of how-to guide and reference work, The Only Business Writing Book You’ll Ever Need addresses a wide-ranging spectrum of business communication with its straightforward seven-step method. These easy-to-follow steps save you time from start to finish, and helpful checklists will boost your confidence as they keep you on track. You’ll learn to promote yourself and your ideas clearly and concisely―whether putting together a persuasive project proposal or dealing with daily email.
Laura Brown’s supportive, no-nonsense approach to business writing is thoughtfully adapted to the increasingly digital corporate landscape. She provides practical tips and comprehensive examples for all the most popular forms of communication, including slide presentations, résumés, cover letters, web copy, and a thorough guide to the art of crafting e-mails and instant messages. Insightful sidebars from experts in various fields demystify the skills of self-editing, creating content, and overcoming writer’s block, and Brown’s reference-ready resources on style, punctuation, and grammar will keep your writing error-free.
Nuanced, personable, and of-the-moment, The Only Business Writing Book You’ll Ever Need offers essential tools for success in the rapidly changing world of business communication.

Brief contents
Introduction
To Write or Not to Write?
What Kind of Writer Are You?
The Seven Steps
The Checklist
The Checklist in Action: Before and After Examples
Types of Business Writing
Resources
Acknowledgments
Appendix A: Business Writing Survey
Appendix B: List of Common Prepositions
Contributors
Index

Length: 192 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (January 29, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393635325
ISBN-13: 978-0393635324