Business Writing Today: A Practical Guide - Softcover

Canavor, Natalie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1483358666 ISBN 13: 9781483358666

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2015

Synopsis

Confident writers succeed. Whether you aim for a career in the business, nonprofit or government world, good writing equips you to stand out.  In this accessible and reader-friendly book, Natalie Canavor shares a step-by-step framework to help you write strategically, win opportunities, and perform better on the job. You’ll know what to say and how to say it in any medium from email to blog, cover letter, proposal, resume, report, website, tweet, news release, and more. You’ll discover practical, grammar-free techniques to improve all your writing and learn how to recognize and fix your own problems with clear demonstrations. Business Writing Today, Second Edition, gives you tools, techniques and inside tips drawn from the worlds of journalism, corporate communications and public relations.  It prepares you to better understand the business world and communicate in ways that achieve your own immediate and long range goals in today’s highly competitive work environment.

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About the Author

Natalie Canavor is a business writer, author, journalist and former college instructor. Throughout her successive careers as a magazine editor and public relations manager, she originated programs to help people communicate more effectively. Today she focuses on this work with practical programs for business and professional audiences, college students and writing instructors.

Natalie taught advanced writing seminars for NYU’s MS program in public relations and corporate communication for six years, and created a number of courses and workshops on strategic messaging for businesspeople, professionals and entrepreneurs.

Her byline as a journalist has appeared on hundreds of features and columns in newspapers including the New York Times and Newsday; a host of business and technical publications; and professional magazines such as Communication World and ASJA Magazine, published by the American Association of Journalists and Authors. For seven years, she wrote a column on better writing for the International Association of Business Communicators, read by 15,000 professionals worldwide.

As a national magazine editor-in-chief, Natalie created a series of successful start-ups including Today’s Filmmaker, Videography and Technical Photography. She also served as an editor of Popular Photography. As an organizational communicator, Natalie built a 14-person PR department for New York State’s largest educational agency and counseled management on communication strategy; directed print, video, and e-media; and created communications skills training programs for school leaders.

Natalie is also the author of Business Writing for Dummies, currently in its third edition, and coauthor of Workplace Genie: An Unorthodox Toolkit to Help Transform Your Work Relationships and Get the Most From Your Career, with psychotherapist Susan Dowell. She also coauthored The Truth About the New Rules of Business Writing, a popular guide for businesspeople. In the wake of a new interest in poetry, her work was recently published as part of The Song in the Room: Six Women Poets.

Natalie’s work has earned dozens of national and international awards for feature articles, video scripts, websites and publications. She served two terms as president of an International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) chapter, which recognized her as Communicator of the Year, and was a founding officer of IABC’s Heritage Region. Natalie is a member of the Author’s Guild and the American Society of Journalists and Authors.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1483358666
• ISBN 13: 9781483358666
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 384