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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449827903321

Autore

Swenson Jack

Titolo

The building blocks of business writing [[electronic resource] /] / Jack Swenson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Los Altos, Calif., : Crisp Publications, c1991

ISBN

1-4175-2069-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (78 p.)

Disciplina

808/.06665

Soggetti

Business writing

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""TITLE""; ""COPYRIGHT""; ""CONTENTS""; ""CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION""; ""A Simple Procedure""; ""Start at the Beginning""; ""Building the Foundation""; ""No Shortcuts""; ""Getting Started""; ""CHAPTER 2 GRAMMAR""; ""Express Yourself in Complete Sentences""; ""What Is A Sentence?""; ""Recognizing Incomplete Sentences""; ""Run-Together Sentences""; ""Fixing Faulty Sentences""; ""Review""; ""Common Grammar Errors""; ""1 Omitting Verb Endings""; ""2 Shifts in Time""; ""3 Missing Articles""; ""4 Wrong Prepositions""; ""5 Errors in Agreement""; ""6 Unclear Reference""; ""7 Misplaced Phrases""

""8 Awkward Lists""""9 Nonstandard Words""; ""Standard English and Dialects""; ""Special Problems of Nonnative Speakers""; ""CHAPTER 3 SPELLING""; ""Let the Computer Do It?""; ""Commonly Confused Words""; ""Spelling Rules""; ""CHAPTER 4 PUNCTUATION""; ""Six Punctuation Marks""; ""Commas""; ""Apostrophes""; ""CHAPTER 5 MECHANICS""; ""Capital Letters""; ""ALWAYS CAPITALIZE:""; ""NEVER CAPITALIZE:""; ""Quotation Marks""; ""Format and Appearance of Letters and Memos""; ""CHAPTER 6 STYLE""; ""Developing Your Writing Skills""; ""What Is Style?""; ""How to Write With Style""