How to Write Well at Work
Simple steps to get you writing with fluency and confidence
Read chapter 1 Free (PDF - 127Kb)
If you're one of the millions of people who feel uneasy when asked to write something at work - whether it's a memo, a letter or a report for your boss - this book can help. It shows you how good writing is much more than just avoiding spelling traps or grammatical howlers.
Instead, it reveals how good writing is a valuable management tool in its own right. It's one of the key ways in which you can put across your own point of view to customers, suppliers, other members of your work team… anybody, in fact, who wants information from you presented in considered and thoughtful language.
Good writing makes the writer look good, too. It's vital when you need to persuade people to your way of thinking on an issue. When you write well you engender new respect, raise management's opinion of you - and do no harm to your career prospects! Anybody can "look good on paper" - even people who didn't shine in English at school - with the aid of this helpful and practical guide.
Author: Peter Bartram
Price: £12.95
Publisher: New Venture Publishing
Pages: 191
Format: Paperback 218mm x 134mm
ISBN: 978-0-9552336-2-3
Praise for How to Write Well at Work:
"Peter Bartram's thorough account of the pitfalls of written business English is neat and economical. He is old-fashioned enough to have standards, but flexible enough not to be too prescriptive about supposed 'grammatical' rules. In short, he offers the right sort of advice to enable anyone to produce better reports and presentations, even write more effective emails." - Business Voice (official magazine of the Confederation of British Industries)
Praise for Peter Bartram's other books on business writing
"Mr Bartram's advice is sensible and practical. For instance, he pours scorn on the mealy-mouthed euphemisms and evasive polysyllables that come out of so many companies… his guidance away from the self-important to the straightforward should be read by everyone who writes anything." - Daily Telegraph
"A concise and useful guide for those who lack confidence in their business writing, as well as for anyone who would simply like to sharpen up their reports, letters and such-like. Bartram writes without condescension, in a style which is easy to read but never flippant, and inspires confidence with his sensible advice and clear examples of how and how not to write effectively." - Business Age
Contents
Preface: A way with words
Part 1: Perfect Business Writing
- A cure for writing paralysis
- Six steps to successful writing
- Hitting the target
- Putting on the style
- Tactics for effective writing
- Words on a page
- Subjunctives, semicolons and stuff
- Any other business
Part 2: The Perfect Report
- The purpose of a report
- Getting started
- Researching a report
- Drawing the right conclusions
- Writing to inform and convince
- Design, layout and production
- Any other business
| 
