Business
Etiquette & Professionalism
is a practical, usable book of
principles practiced by all successful professionals.
These ideas can be applied by everyone to their own life, making you richer, happier and more successful. It's not a 10-easy-steps-to-success book or a quick-fix manual. It's a how-to book on using etiquette and protocol for becoming a more professional businessperson. |
 Handling Diversity in the Workplace:
Communication Is the Key will make you more aware of the ways we can offend others; help you recognize your blind spots; provide you with way to avoid verbal, social, and written mistakes; help you learn how to talk about your differences and your similarities; and give you new ways to deal with and relate to people.
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 Writing
for BIG Results
A reference book and
study guide combined to meet a need: answering the questions
businesspeople (domestic and foreign), writers and students ask about
today’s American writing and grammar usage. Simple, understandable,
humorous examples and logical, easy ways to remember the rules.
A writing textbook and grammar style book all in one!
By the
author of Don’t Let Your Participles Dangle in Public!
and Writing for the College-Bound Student.
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Writing
Skills for the College-Bound
Student
(and Anyone Else Who Needs to Revise, Review or
Refresh)
is fun
and easy-to-read, full of logical and humorous examples for a brainy kid's
imagination, enhanced with brain teasers and
review quizzes to copy and use as pre- and post-tests, and charming
graphics. It's a super reference for home, school (and even office). It's the
answer for anyone—even adults—who has to write, type or proofread
reports, essays, school or white papers, letters or speeches. 125 pages
and spiral-bound for easy use.
Nominated for 2005 Georgia author of the year!
Should be required reading for every
college freshman. —Writer's Digest
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The
difference between the right word and the almost-right
word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. —Mark Twain
Using the wrong
word in a document can hurt your image as badly as wearing
different-colored shoes to a job interview. And there’s often a big
deviation in small shades of meaning.
Many words in
our language have multiple meanings, and many are similar; we have words
that sound the same but are spelled differently and mean different
things (homonyms); and some words are just easier to say than the proper
ones.
Should you use
a or an? accept or except? advise, advice
or inform? allude or elude, anybody or
any body?
This small book
will help you say, or write, exactly what you mean so you won't confuse
your readers.
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A synonym is a word you
use when you can't spell the
other one. —Baltasar Gracián
Why should we be
so careful with our spelling? Because
correct spelling is one of the marks of an
educated, efficient and detail-oriented
individual. And because misspelling one word
can create a new word that means something
entirely different (like prescribe, which
means recommend, and proscribe, which means
forbid). For those reasons alone, you
shouldn’t permit yourself to misspell words
even in your personal correspondence or
e-mails.
Misspellings
frequently occur because words are not
spelled as they sound. Fewer errors would be
made if, for instance, the correct spelling
of alphabet were alfabet and
temperament were spelled
temperment. However, since tricky
spellings are an integral part of the
English language, we just have to learn to
recognize and cope with them. This book
covers most of the words you use in everyday
writing.
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