Description |
1 online resource (143 pages) |
Contents |
Cover; Contents; THE NEW WAY TO WRITE; MORE ABOUT STYLE; MORE ABOUT ORGANIZATION; MORE ABOUT LAYOUT; FINAL WORDS; Appendix: Simpler words and phrases; Index |
Summary |
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 an |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Business writing.
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Business report writing.
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Business report writing
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Business writing
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780199874484 |
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0199874484 |
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1283427664 |
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9781283427661 |
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