The Manager's Pocket Guide to Effective Writing

by Steve Gladis

Book Overview

Whether you're a manager in charge of a group of writers, or a person interested in just improving his or her writing skills, The Manager's Pocket Guide to Effective Writing will help you write better... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874254795
• ISBN13: 9780874254792
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: HRD Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.5" x 7.1"

Customer Reviews

Business Writing in Ten Steps

Steve Gladis sympathizes with those who have been taught that writing is a one-step, sit-down-and-do-it-perfectly process. His book breaks the writing process down into ten steps that guide writers from blank pages to polished prose. The ten steps are: -1. Selecting - Make the early decisions needed to give writing focus. -2. Exploring - Access your mind's database as it collects and connects information. -3. Fastwriting - Use techniques that put ideas on paper quickly. -4. Surveying - Scan a fastwritten draft for ideas and holes. -5. Hunting - Gather information from people and written documents. -6. Writing - Integrate information into the next draft. -7. Revising - Examine your structure, craft clear paragraphs and link them together. -8. Rewriting - Create logical structure of introduction, body, and conclusion. -9. Testing - Improve writing using help from others. 10. Ending - Use clean-up editing to polish writing into a final product. This book is designed as a set of self-study chapters that will improve individual writing. It can also be used as a ten-part writing workshop for a group. Each chapter contains learning objectives and activities to support classroom learning. The style is straightforward and readable. Although the book is over ten years old, it has aged well and is highly recommended. It belongs on your bookshelf next to Strunk and White's The Elements of Style.