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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461545503321

Autore

Bailey Edward P

Titolo

The plain English approach to business writing [[electronic resource] /] / Edward P. Bailey, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1990

ISBN

1-283-42766-4

9786613427663

0-19-987448-4

Edizione

[Rev. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (143 p.)

Disciplina

808/.06665

Soggetti

Business writing

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; THE NEW WAY TO WRITE; MORE ABOUT STYLE; MORE ABOUT ORGANIZATION; MORE ABOUT LAYOUT; FINAL WORDS; Appendix: Simpler words and phrases; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In offices across America, the Masters of Gobbledygook are hard at work. They're bombarding in-boxes with those long, confusing memos that colleagues don't have the patience to read--and bosses don't have the time to rewrite. They use words like ""commence"" or ""prior to"" instead of ""begin"" or ""before."" They bury their main point somewhere in the last paragraph--and take two pages to get there. Everybody knows one of them; in fact, you may even be one of them. But now there's help for anyone who's ever fallen prey to businessese, academese, legalese, or any other ""ese"" when faced with