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AMA handbook of business writing : the ultimate guide to style, grammar, usage, punctuation, construction, and formatting / Kevin Wilson and Jennifer Wauson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, K. (Kevin), 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Commercial correspondence--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Commercial correspondence.
- Business writing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Business writing.
- English language--Business English--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- English language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (666 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st edition
- Other Title:
- American Management Association handbook of business writing
- Handbook of business writing
- Place of Publication:
- New York : American Management Association, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- An indispensable desktop reference for every business professional!
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; Loan, Lend; INTRODUCTION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; SECTION 1 The Writing Process; Audience Analysis; Brainstorming; Research; Interviewing; Outlining; Writing a Draft; Business Writing Style; Using Visuals; Page Design; Publication Design; Editing; Proofreading; Document Review; Revisions; Documenting Sources; Footnotes and Endnotes; Bibliographies; Global Communications; Collaborative Writing; Promotional Writing; SECTION 2 The Business Writer's Alphabetical Reference; A, An; Abbreviations; Titles Before and After Names; Names; Mathematical Units and Measurements; Long Phrases
- Words Used with Numbers Common Latin Terms; States and Territories; Things You Should Not Abbreviate; Spacing and Periods for Abbreviations; Guidelines for Using Abbreviations in Your Writing; Abbreviations for Measurements; Abbreviations for Numbers; Above, Below; Absolute Form of an Adjective; Absolute Phrase; Absolutely; Abstract Nouns; Accent Marks; Accept, Except; Access, Excess; Acronyms; Action Verbs; Active Voice; A.D.; Adjectival Noun; Adjectival Opposites; Adjective Phrase; Adjectives; Placement of Adjectives in a Sentence; Use of Multiple Adjectives; Degrees of Adjectives
- Irregular Form Adjectives A-Adjectives; Adjuncts, Disjuncts, and Conjuncts; Adverbial Clause; Adverbial Phrase; Adverbs; Prepositional Phrases Acting as Adverbs; Infinitive Phrases Acting as Adverbs; Adverbs in a Numbered List; Adverbs to Avoid; Positioning Adverbs in a Sentence; Order of Adverbs; Inappropriate Adverb Order; Viewpoint Adverbs; Focus Adverbs; Negative Adverbs; Advice, Advise; Affect, Effect; Affixes; African-American; Age; Agents; Agreement; Aid, Aide; Alike; A Little; Allegories; Alliteration; All Right, Alright; Allusion, Illusion; Alone, Lonely; A Lot, Alot, Allot
- Already, All Ready Altogether, All Together; Ambitransitive Verbs; American English, British English; Among, Between; Ampersand; A.M., P.M.; An; Anadiplosis; Anaphora; And Also; And/Or; Angry, Mad; Animate Nouns; Antagonyms; Antecedent; Anti-; Antimetabole; Antonyms; Any, Either; Any, Some; Apart, A Part; Apodosis; Apostrophe; Appears, Displays; Appendix; Apposition; Appositives; Articles; As, Like; Assure, Insure, Ensure; Asterisks; As to Whether; As Well As; Autoantonyms; Auxiliary Verbs; Average, Mean, Median; A While, Awhile; Awful, Awfully; Bad, Badly; Back-Channeling; Backslash, Slash
- Back up, Backup Base Form of a Verb; Basically, Essentially, Totally; B.C.; Because, Since, As; Been, Gone; Being That, Being As; Below; Beside, Besides; Between, Among; Bias, Biased; Biased or Sexist Language; Bibliography; Billion; Biweekly, Bimonthly, Semiweekly, Semimonthly; Blind; Blog, Weblog; Bold Fonts; Bored, Boring; Both, Alike; Both, Each; Brackets; Changes to Quoted Material; Digressions within Parentheses; Brake, Break; Brand Names; Breath, Breathe; Bring, Take; British English; Bulleted List; Bushel; Business, Right; Buzzwords; By, Bye, Buy; By, Until; Call Back, Callback
- Call Out, Callout
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-78402-222-5
- 1-62198-329-3
- 1-282-72938-1
- 9786612729386
- 0-8144-1590-3
- OCLC:
- 657365887
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