This soft-cover business communication text -- an abridged version of College English and Communication, 7e -- retains that text's strong features but lacks the heavy emphasis on grammar and mechanics. Instead, College Communication focuses on the development of effective listening, speaking, and writing skills. Emphasis is on the global, ethical, technological, and customer service aspects of …
A book for those who wish to learn how to write with precision, clarity, and style - whether about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts, or about themselves
This book explains the importance of developing strong human relationships at work and provides methods to build and maintain them. The emphasis is on how to build mutually rewarding relationships.
Focuses on the aims - or purposes - of argument: to inquire, to convince, to persuade, and to mediate. This book emphasizes rhetorical contexts, to help students become experts in reading, analyzing, and writing arguments.
The author presents 14 teaching methods, which most teachers are familiar with, in a new perspective that casts light on the confusion, ambiguity, and misunderstanding or distorted concepts held by teachers that lead to less desirable effectiveness. The author systematically clarifies important concepts of each teaching method by analyzing, distinguishing, and differentiating specific objective…
"For nearly sixty years Kate L. Turabian's Manual for writers has offered comprehensive and detailed guidance to writers of research papers--term papers, theses, and dissertations. Now the editors of The Chicago manual of style have revised Turabian's Manual to bring the details of style into conformity with the fourteenth edition of the Chicago manual. This new edition of 'Turabian' reflects t…
This text provides broad coverage for the three genres of literature: fiction; poetry; and drama. It includes full coverage of writing about literature.
Featuring integrated readings and many activities, this book provides an introduction to argumentation. It combines coverage of the principles of classical argument, with a focus on the various community contexts - historical and contemporary - that influence arguments.