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"Writing Without Bullshit is the first comprehensive guide to writing for today&#x;s world: a noisy environment where everyone reads what you write on a screen. The average news story now gets only 36 seconds of attention. Unless you change how you write, your emails, reports, and Web copy don&#x;t stand a chance. In this practical and witty book, you&#x;ll learn to front-load your writing with pithy titles, subject lines, and opening sentences....
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Pub. Date
[2025]
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English
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"Improve your ability to write and produce financial reports and analyses that are more effective, better understand where information comes from, and obtain a deeper understanding of how financial reports are prepared and how they are used"--
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CRC Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Most people dread writing reports; they also dread reading reports. What they don't realize is that the techniques that make writing more readable make it more powerful. This is especially relevant for professionals in areas such as audit, risk, compliance, and information security. This small volume provides the tools and techniques needed to improve reports. It does so through addressing crucial concepts all too often overlooked in the familiar...
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Publisher
Peterson's
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"The Associated Press Guide to News Writing, is the standard professional resource for both novice and experienced news writers. This practical handbook is the ideal writing style guide for all reporters, writers, editors, and English and journalism students. It covers all the essentials of good news writing, according to the styles and guidelines set forth by the Associated Press--with lively examples from today's newspapers. This authoritative guide...
7) Writing life stories: how to make memories into memoirs, ideas into essays, and life into literature
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Publisher
Writer's Digest Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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From the Publisher: Writing Life Stories is a classic text that appears on countless creative nonfiction and composition syllabi the world over. This updated 10th anniversary edition gives readers the same friendly instruction and stimulating exercises along with updated information on current memoir writing trends, ethics, Internet research, and even marketing ideas. Readers will discover how to turn their untold life stories into vivid personal...
14) MLA handbook
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The Modern Language Association of America
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"The ninth edition of the MLA Handbook is a textbook and reference guide that offers student writers and writing instructors guidance on creating works-cited-list entries in MLA style using the template of core elements. It features advice on punctuation, grammar, inclusive language, formatting research papers, and in-text citations. Includes an appendix of sample works-cited-list entries, illustrations, and an index"--
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Kogan Page Ltd
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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How to Write Reports and Proposals is essential reading for achieving effective writing techniques. Getting a message across on paper and presenting a proposal in a clear and persuasive form are vital skills for anyone in business, and this book provides practical advice on how to impress, convince and persuade your colleagues or clients. Fully updated for 2019, this 5th edition now features even more practical exercises, useful templates, and top...
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Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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A collection of over a hundred writing tips gleaned from fifty popular writing books. Chapters are devoted to each key strategy. Author expands and contextualizes original authors' suggestions and shares how each tip helped other authors improve their skills.
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Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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This step-by-step guide shows how, by following a few simple rules when selecting a topic, using library research, developing an outline, writing your first draft then final version, any student can improve both the structure and style of an essay or dissertation. It also gives advice on how to pass timed essay tests.
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BCS Learning & Development
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Technical writing is about communicating key information to the people who need it. It might be a manual for an application, a guide to using heavy machinery, a diagnostic aide for medical practitioners or a guidance note about new legislation. It needs to be clear and it needs to be precise. This book shows you how to achieve this and more. Whatever the content or context, in this book you'll discover the essential tools and resources that you need...
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Just got assigned your first college research paper? Don’t sweat it! College Research Papers For Dummies has your back with the perfect companion to these not-as-hard-as-they-look assignments. Discover how to research, argue, problem-solve, analyze, and synthesize your way through even the densest material. Find out how to best revise and rework your paper until it’s a polished gem. Plus, get some quick tips on higher-level research papers, such...
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