Get to the Point! Painless Advice for Writing Memos, Letters and E-mails Your Colleagues and Clients Will Understand

by Elizabeth Danziger

Book Overview

Thousands of readers have gained from reading this witty, no-nonsense guide to powerful business writing. Hailed as "The Elements of Style for the 21st century" by New York Times best-selling author... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0609807609
• ISBN13: 9780609807606
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.6" x 5.2"

Customer Reviews

Use this to help your people 'get to the point'

Not only useful for writing, this book helps your people communicate better, particularly for: 1) people from other disciplines who need to communicate effectively like finance people 2) people writing in English as a foreign language 3) experienced communicators looking to polish their skills The author covers strategic writing such as 'audience hot buttons' as well as practical such as weak verbs to avoid like 'go', 'say' and 'do'. You may like her approach to writing creation using 'organic outlining' in part 3 to organize information effectively, where you express ideas as sentences on post-it notes. This book is my first recommendation for people to communicate better. Because it is the most practical that I've seen comparing to others like "Elements of Style", etc. I wish I had had this book in grade school !

Get Writing With Get to the Point

Get to the Point provides a wonderful, practical, and useful guide to writing. I recommend it highly.

The Best Thing Since Elements of Style

This book is great! Funny, easy to read, and phenomenally useful. Everyone should own one.