Improving Writing Skills: Memos, Letters, Reports, and Proposals (Survival Skills for Scholars) - Softcover

Berger, Arthur A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803948239 ISBN 13: 9780803948235

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1993

Synopsis

This brief, practical guide illustrates the most common kinds of business correspondence that a university professor is required to produce and offers useful advice to make these communications as effective as possible. The author also offers general suggestions on effective writing, including brainstorming and collaborating, persuasion, outlining and revising, and designing documents.

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About the Author

Arthur Asa Berger is Professor Emeritus of Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts at San Francisco State University, where he taught between 1965 and 2003. He has published more than 100 articles, numerous book reviews, and more than 60 books. Among his latest books are the third edition of Media and Communication Research Methods: An Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (2013), The Academic Writer’s Toolkit: A User’s Manual (2008), What Objects Mean: An Introduction to Material Culture (2009), Bali Tourism (2013), Tourism in Japan: An Ethno-Semiotic Analysis (2010), The Culture Theorist’s Book of Quotations (2010), and The Objects of Our Affection: Semiotics and Consumer Culture (2010). He has also written a number of academic mysteries such as Durkheim is Dead: Sherlock Holmes is Introduced to Sociological Theory (2003) and Mistake in Identity: A Cultural Studies Murder Mystery (2005). His books have been translated into eight languages and thirteen of his books have been translated into Chinese.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0803948239
• ISBN 13: 9780803948235
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96