Report Writing for Business Review

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(More customer reviews)I purchased this book to use as a guide for students who needed help with industrial-setting report writing. It was a bit more than they needed or could digest at the time. It certainly is a college level text! Since I couldn't easily use it in the work setting I had in mind, I kept it for myself and am glad I did.
I particularly have found useful the chapters on the physical preparation of reports, since those are applicable to workbooks, and books and articles as well. The material on research--using email surveys for example--was very helpful and interesting.
This is not Report Writing For Dummies! It can be intimidating at first thumb-through. But it is a comprehensive look at an extremely wide variety of writing and presentation situations in business. It would be very helpful for almost any supervisor or manager, or for authors, trainers and teachers.

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Here's the most practical approach you'll find to report writing. This popular guide presents report writing as consisting of universal steps that help reaers break down each project into manageable components--defining the probem, collecting the facts, organizing the information, constructing the report, and writing it all up. Light on theory, heavy on practical guidelines and tips, no wonder this guide has had a host of loyal followers through ten successful editions.

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Business Communication: Building Critical Skills Review

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(More customer reviews)Having taught business communications for years, I've been waiting for a textbook that effectively combines business theory with practical approaches for improving students' writing. Using an innovative modular approach, Locker & Kaczmarek's Business Communication-Building Critical Skills (BCS) succeeds in doing both.
What I like most about BCS the flexibility it affords. Its modular approach enabled me to design a curriculum that complemented my teaching style. For instance, each module contains a "Polishing your Prose" section-a series of exercises that review topics ranging from grammar to parallel structure. Throughout the semester, I've used these sections to help students improve their writing noticeably. Other texts tend to relegate discussions about grammar and the craft of writing to single chapter or a less-than-adequate appendix.
In addition to creating an innovative and flexible text, Locker and Kaczmarek have helped to simplify the instructor's job by providing a wealth of supplementary materials, including an online resource, PowerPoint presentations, transparency masters, a test bank, and a computerized gradebook.
Having already used Business Communication-Building Critical Skills, I cannot recommend the text enough. I expect to use it for many semesters to come. I would encourage you to purchase the book (Published by McGraw-Hill) and see for yourself.

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Overview:Business Communication: Building Critical Skills provides a unique approach to a hands-on course, devised and created in its previous editions by Kitty Locker, with the assistance of a community college colleague, Stephen Kaczmarek. The innovative module structure allows instructors to focus on specific skills and provides greater flexibility for short courses and different teaching approaches. While grounded in solid business communication fundamentals, this text takes a strong workplace activity orientation which helps students build the writing, speaking, and listening skills that are crucial for success in the 21st-century workplace.

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Management: Leading and Collaborating in the Competitive World Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is unique in its pedagogical approach. Other management textbooks are just characterized with sound theoretical depth and textual density. However, "Management: The New Competitive Landscape" is distinguished by the capability of its authors to seamlessly blend the theoretical concept with practical, real-life advice using an exceptionally engaging conversational style. Holding a bachelor's degree in business administration as well as an MBA in Management, I completed several management classes and researched advanced management literature in many books. However, I decided to purchase this introductory management reference due to its unprecedented pedagogical style. When I opened the book in the store, I felt like attending a live lecture from the authors directly capturing their knowledge and experiential advice. Thus I learned from this book big time especially from the on-the-job perspective.

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Bateman and Snell's "Management: Leading & Collaborating in a Competitive World" is a text with a fully modernized functional approach. This text is maintaining the four traditional functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, while modernizing and re-visioning the concepts as delivering strategic value, building a dynamic organization, mobilizing people, and learning and changing. Bateman/Snell's results-oriented approach is a unique hallmark of this textbook. In this ever more competitive environment, there are five essential types of performance, on which the organization beats, equals, or loses to the competition which are cost, quality, speed, innovation and service. These five performance dimensions, when done well, deliver value to the customer and competitive advantage to you and your organization. Throughout the text Bateman & Snell remind students of these five dimensions and their impact on the 'bottom line' with marginal icons contributing to the leadership and collaboration theme, which is the key to successful management. People working with one another, rather than against, is essential to competitive advantage.

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Pocket Book of Technical Writing for Engineers & Scientists (McGraw-Hill's Best: Basic Engineering Series and Tools) Review

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(More customer reviews)Finkelstein does an alright job with this book. It includes a lot of examples to base your paper off of. It shows you business letters, proposals, technical mechinism reports. tech process reports, technical diffinitions, progress reports, resume stuff, formal letters, memos, etc.
It was required for my technical communications class for engineers. It's definately something to keep on the shelf for reference.

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The focus of this text is to teach engineering students the skill of technical writing. The book is unique in that it gets to the point, uses practical outlines throughout,and shows students how to produce the most common technical documents step-by-step, in a manner that is fun and interesting to students. Each chapter has an end-of-chapter critique which allows students to implement what they have learned in the chapter.
With ABET increasing the emphasis on technical writing,this affordable, straightforward, easy-to-understand text with flexible coverage, would be a perfect fit for your technical writing course.

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Excellence in Business Communication (9th Edition) (MyBCommLab Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is choc-full of useful techniques for good, solid business communication. The samples are well thought-out and are very true to life. However, the questions, especially the ethics questions do not have any answers provided. Even the instructor copy doesn't have any of the answers, so effectively it boils down to your opinions and whether or not you can defend them. Yee Hah, just like real life.

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Learn Business Communication Skills By Example. Excellent, effective, and practical business communication skills are necessary in order to succeed in today's business world. Excellence in Business Communication delivers an abundance of the most realistic model documents and tools, helping readers learn business communication skills by example. The ninth edition is a more efficient, rigorously revised textbook that maintains solid coverage of fundamentals while addressing developments in the business communication field. The authors also understand that to succeed in today's social media environment, business communicators must abandon outdated thinking and embrace the new social communication model that's redefining business communication and the relationships between companies and their stakeholders. By offering practical advice and hands-on experience through dozens of activities and cases, this edition helps readers adapt their communication skills to this important new media.

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The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course in Business Writing and Communication: Manage Your Writing (McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Courses) Review

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(More customer reviews)If you're reading this review, you probably already know that improving your writing could help your career and are motivated to do that, so this book could be very helpful.
Although this book is very readable (written in a casual, direct, and often humorous style), you wouldn't want to just read it, because it's designed to be used. The organization is great for actually applying what each chapter teaches: testing yourself on what you've learned and, most importantly, practicing new approaches to writing. If you're serious about becoming a better writer on-the-job, then this book can teach you how to do that.
You just need to be motivated enough to put in the 36 hours and really do what's required to learn on your own. This is a lot cheaper, more flexible, and possibly more effective way to learn than taking a class with a roomful of people and doing graded homework assignments that might not apply to your every day work.
The author has great examples and his "manage your writing today" sections are practical and creative and easy to apply. You just need to follow the instructions.

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Guidelines and pointers for adding clarity and persuasiveness to business writing

Filled with the contemporary case studies, handson exercises, and self-tests that are the trademark of McGraw-Hill's 36-Hour series, The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course in Business Writing and Communication shows readers what they must do to craft a strong message and deliver that message in e-mails, memos, reports, and more.

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