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How to write reports & proposals / Patrick Forsyth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Forsyth, Patrick.
- Series:
- Creating success
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Business report writing.
- Proposal writing in business.
- Business writing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 138 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Philadelphia, PA : Kogan Page Limited, 2013.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Getting a message across on paper and presenting a proposal in a clear and persuasive form are vital skills for anyone in business. How to Write Reports and Proposals, 3rd edition, provides practical advice on how to impress, convince and persuade your colleagues or clients. It will help you: improve your writing skills, think constructively before writing, create a good report, produce persuasive proposals, use clear and distinctive language, present numbers, graphs and charts effectively, Full of checklists, exercises and examples, How To Write Reports and Proposals is essential reading that will help you produce a convincing case with style. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- A note on this new edition
- Introduction: pitfalls and opportunities
- What makes good business writing?
- Creating a good report
- Preparing to write
- The power of language
- Making numbers clear
- Making proposals persuasive
- The contribution of layout and presentation
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.
- ISBN:
- 0749467150
- 9780749467159
- Publisher Number:
- 99959509548
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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