Title: STRATEGIES FOR BUSINESS AND TEACHING WRITING and ELEMENTS OF PRACTICAL WRITING
Abstract: In his preface,1 Kevin Harty suggests three ways to use his book: as a supplement to a standard business or technical writing text; as a supplement to a general composition text or handbook; or its own as a text or reference book. Only an especially creative instructor could successfully use Hatty's book on its own, since it does not include the necessary how-to material found in handbooks and rhetorics. Instead, Harty has collected here 28 wonderfully opinion ated but practical articles writing for the professions?all written by people working or consulting in business and industry. This real world strategy gives the book a credibility lacking in many technical/business writing texts. For example, when Malcolm Forbes, Editor of Forbes Magazine, explains how to write an effective business letter, students sit up and take notice. His forceful advice to use the active voice and to annihilate unnecessary words is more believable than similar advice from an English professor. Similarly, when David Ewing, Executive Editor of the Harvard Business Review, or Harold K. Mintz, Senior Tech Editor for RCA, talk about better functional writing, people listen. Tucked among these contributions from business and industry are articles by Linda Rower, Peter Elbow, J. C. Mathes and Dwight
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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