Utimate guide to business writing all the secrets of creating and managing business documents

"The Ultimate Guide to Business Writing is a comprehensive guide on how to write any kind of business document. Written clearly in an engaging voice, it explains in depth the whole process: from determining objectives to establishing readers' needs, conducting research, outlining, and desi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Maynard-Smith, Julian, 1964- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, New York State ; London, England : Routledge [2021]
Edición:First Edition
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009645701006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • About the Author
  • 1 How to write any document
  • Consider what outcomes you want
  • Research your readers
  • Gather your information
  • Select/adapt a template
  • Pick a filename
  • Design the structure
  • Write the first draft
  • Revise for meaning
  • Trim verbosity and clichés
  • Simplify your sentences
  • Revise for style and emotion
  • Fix your punctuation
  • Check your grammar
  • Check your spelling and capitalisation
  • Fix your formatting
  • (Optional) Add a glossary
  • (Optional) Create an index
  • Proofread
  • (Recommended) Get reviews
  • 2 Managing knowledge
  • Organise across everything
  • Create a universal taxonomy
  • Shorten the reader's journey
  • Collaborate
  • Share knowledge across projects
  • Nurture information
  • Avoid duplication
  • Design for obviousness
  • Pull rather than push
  • Choose the right content-management system
  • Run a knowledge 'health check'
  • Provide 'knowledge about the knowledge'
  • 3 Further writing tips
  • Choosing images
  • Printing documents
  • Creating slideshows
  • Creating PDFs
  • Free writing tools available on the web
  • Final thoughts
  • Bibliography
  • Index.