Writing on the Job (eBook)

Best Practices for Communicating in the Digital Age

Martha B. Coven (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22996-6 (ISBN)

Infos

A practical and compact guide to writing for professionalsWriting is an essential skill in today's workplace. From messaging platforms and social media to traditional forms of communication like memos and reports, we rely on words more than ever. Given how much reading we do on mobile devices, being able to write succinctly is critical to success. Writing on the Job is an incisive guide to clear and effective writing for professionals.Martha Coven begins with the basics, explaining how to develop a professional style, get started on a piece of writing, create a first draft, and edit it into a strong final product. She then offers practical advice on more than a dozen forms of writing, from emails and slide decks to proposals and cover letters. Along the way, Coven provides a wealth of concrete examples and simple templates that make the concepts easy to understand and apply.Based on Coven's popular writing classes and workshops at Princeton University as well as her decades of experience in the public and private sectors, Writing on the Job addresses the real challenges professionals face in today's digital age, and shares essential practices that can improve the performance of any organization.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.5.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Skills for Scholars
• Zusatzinfo: 9 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: Abbreviation • Abbreviation (music) • Advertising • Apostrophe • Applicant (sketch) • audience analysis • author • Autofill • Business Case • Business Correspondence • business letter • Business Model • Business Process • Calculation • Callout • Career • Classroom • columbia business school • Communication • Consultant • Contraction (grammar) • corporate jargon • Coven • Cover Letter • Creative Writing • Criticism • Customer • Data Visualization • Decision-Making • Desk • Editing • editorial • Elevator Pitch • Email • Email address • emailing • Employment • Executive Summary • FAQ • focus group • formality • Frank Luntz • grammar • Headline • Interview • Investor • Jargon • Job description • Journalist • Journal of Applied Corporate Finance • Lead paragraph • learning • Lecture • lynne truss • Manuscript • narrative • newspaper • New Thought • Nonprofit Organization • Note-taking • Note (typography) • Op-Ed • Paragraph • Parenthesis (rhetoric) • Performance appraisal • Phrase • Platitude • press release • private sector • Procrastination • Product design • Productivity software • proofreading • Public sector • Public speaking • Publishing • Punctuation • Quotation • Quotation mark • readability • Reading (process) • Recruitment • Repetition (rhetorical device) • Request for proposal • Résumé • Self-Publishing • semicolon • Sentence (linguistics) • Shareholder Letter • Skill • sms language • spell checker • Spelling • spreadsheet • Staffing • Terminology • Testimonial • text messaging • Thinking outside the box • Thought • Title page • Train of Thought • Troubleshooting • Usability Testing • Verb • vocabulary • Volunteering • Wealth • word processor • workplace • Writer • writer's block • Writing • Writing Process • Writing Style • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22996-1 / 0691229961
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22996-6 / 9780691229966