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Business Writing and Communication - Kenneth W. Davis, Ph.D.
This is a good book, but not what you'd expect from the title. Normally, when you see a book on
Business Writing, you expect to see material on document types, layouts, openings, eliminating
wordiness and trite phrases and other structural issues.
This book covers those things, too, but adds considerably more about communication and the
process of writing. The focus is on making sure that your writing is effective and your message
gets to its intended audience. Davis talks about managing your writing, deciding on the purpose of
your message, gathering your resources, planning your structure, and then -- writing your first
draft, editing, fine tuning and polishing. His process works whether your message is a three-line
email or a 300 page report.
If you're looking for a tutorial on grammar, business buzzwords, and sentence structure with
lots of document samples, you'll be dissappointed. But if you'd like to discover a better approach
to writing that will make you an impressive and more effective business communicator, then this is
a book you should pick up.
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