Customer Reviews:
Good but old.......2006-06-25
The elements of business writing give good point to look at.But the book is old and sometime give weird information.It's not an important book to have but, but still have some info.
Very helpful, easy to read........2006-02-01
This book was easy to read and very helpful in communication skills.
One the best guides for business writers.......2005-03-16
This book, with an obvious nod to Strunk and White (which it surpasses), lists 67 principles of good writing, with about two pages each of details and examples. It's on the short list of recommended resources in my book The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course in Business Writing and Communication.
A valuable writing guide.......2004-02-21
Remarkably concise and informative, The Elements of Business Writing: A Guide to Writing Clear, Concise Letters, Memos, Reports, Proposals, and Other Business Documents by Gary Blake and Robert W. Bly is more than just a tool for business people. Taking a common sensical approach, as opposed to a lofty educated tone, Messrs. Blake and Bly do not restrict themselves to business writing, in spite of the title. For the most part, The Elements of Business Writing is a valuable writing guide for just about all forms of writing. The book is strong on: knowing your audience; clarity; precision; and persuasion. When you think about those four elements, you're thinking about effective communication in general. This is something everyone--not just business people--can use in their daily lives.
Very useful.......2001-04-26
If you write letters, emails, business proposals or marketing plans, this book will be useful to you. It is very easy to follow. The book offers a number of suggestions for writing clearly and with style, and explains each point in detail. I used this book for a graduate level class, but it would be useful to anyone!
Book Description
Here is the most complete and up-to-date resource of model business correspondence for every conceivable occasion. From sample letters, memos and e-mails, this guide allows the user to use samples as is, or adapt for their own purpose. This book contains more than 300 model documents demonstrating the key elements necessary to convey the writer's message. Easy organization allows user to quickly identify the specific letter needed.
Customer Reviews:
A good companion.......2007-03-09
Makes sense to have a book to look at whenever you're at a lost of word. This book serves as my reference in my daily activity - from writing letters/memos to sending e-mail (business or personal). A really great companion.
Awesome Book.......2006-07-31
This is a handy book that can be used for years to come. It covers a broad spectrum of subjects relating to communications.
The Encyclopedia of Business Letters, Fax Memos, and E-Mail.......2001-04-22
Exceptional Book, full credit to the Author, this is the best book I have come across, I will recommend this to everyday Jo bloggs user like myself who were struggling to right decent letters.
Little guidance.......2001-04-13
This was very basic and had few examples to choose from when trying to form a letter. What little guidance received was common knowledge. This is best suited for high school students.
This Is An Indispensable Business Writing Guide!.......1999-09-13
The use of Internet technology has made the effective communication of thoughts and ideas in a variety of formats and styles possible. Good Website design alone, however, does not assure that one's intended business message will get across as well as planned and hoped for. Good writing and presentation skills are also important factors to consider in the overall communication process.
Robert Bly has written The Encyclopedia of Business Letters, Fax Memos, and E-Mail to assist people to create a variety of important business correspondence that can be put to use in the office and online. Bly, the author of The Copywriter's Handbook, offers his readers some quick solutions to meeting many practical business correspondence needs. He provides plenty of samples throughout the book that cover a broad range of business needs, including correspondence with colleagues, vendors, employees and employers, customers, handling complaints and requests, making collections, and producing sales and direct marketing letters.
Readers will be impressed with the ease with which they can learn to create their own business letters. Following the guiding principles, samples, and instruction in this book will result in generating favorable responses in making sales, marketing products and services, issuing warnings for poor worker performance, making the firing of people much easier to accomplish (gulp!), terminating services, apologizing for poor performance, and many other tough real-life circumstances they are likely to face in the business world someday!
Bly offers some very helpful tips on customizing letters to meet specific circumstances such as time-sensitive communications, varying message tone, generating favorable responses with creative wording, and preparing correspondence intended for faxing and e-mailing. Bly cautions his readers by reminding them that once someone sends an electronic communication there may be no way to stop it from reaching its destination. Watch your words and emotions!
Readers will learn how to produce many top-notch communications for any purpose, including office correspondence, faxes, e-mail, newsgroups, and Website design use. This book will assist business people of all levels of experience to get any message across much easier with more confidence! This is an indispensable business writing guide. Look good in print and online! Highly recommended for novice business owners!
Book Description
Titles in Barron's Business Success series are quick reads for busy people. They advise career-minded men and women on how to succeed at all levels of management, marketing, and other business undertakings, with emphasis on survival in the corporate environment. This book helps make business writing easy, with tips on matching business language to the proper format—memos, reports, proposals, letters, and more. This new edition also gives attention to e-mail, which in recent years has become a dominant medium for business communication. An appendix presents a quick-reference grammar guide, and cartoon-style line art captures the author's light approach.
Book Description
Take Your Writamins!
Whether you’re an executive whose writing is too stiff, a highly trained professional who can’t string together two coherent sentences, a technical expert who wants to communicate in plain English, or an assistant who needs to brush up on writing basics so you can clean up your boss’s work, you need help. Here, finally, is the fun, informative book you’ve been looking for. Corporate writing coach Elizabeth Danziger presents the entire writing process, from procrastination through proofreading, briefly explaining each key point in a witty, easy-to-read manner. This accessible guide to effective workplace language includes:
* Tips on clear and concise writing
* Secrets of editing and revising
* Simple explanations of the most useful elements of grammar and punctuation
* Frequently misused words and how to remember their correct meanings
With practical information and plenty of good humor,
Get to the Point! is the only writing book you’ll ever need.
Customer Reviews:
Get Writing With Get to the Point.......2007-03-15
Get to the Point provides a wonderful, practical, and useful guide to writing. I recommend it highly.
Don't bother with it.......2006-02-12
Elizabeth Danziger in her book Get to the Point attempts to offer readers a game plan to reduce stress and anxiety in an effort to write more effective memos, letters, and e-mails. Danziger is the fonder of WorkTalk, an organization dedicated to improving the communication of individuals and organizations, & she has written for popular magazines such as: Readers Digest and Family Circle. In this book, Danziger offers solid advice on how to deal with writer's block, & in some chapters, she gives visual checklists to help guide readers in the writing process.
However, readers will find the book unfocused; for example, in Chapter2 entitled: Planning your Writing, she has too many headings & subheading; one heading is: Analyze your reader before you start, which is about a half a page, then on the next page, she talks about how to connect with your reader using a 3 level formula. Yet, no where in the 3 level formula does she go into any detail, then jumps to a topic called "hot buttons" in which she offers little examples of how to determine the "hot buttons" of the writer's audience.
In addition to the lack of focus, you will find that the book is poorly organized. Some chapters have visual examples, and others do not. Chapter 6, Choose words Wisely, Chapter 7, Help for the Grammar Phobic, & Chapter 8 Mark my Punctuation should have all been combined as they deal with many of the same topics.
All in all, Danziger's book is a good example of a person that might be able to write magazine articles but does not have the ability to write a book. It's ironic that on the back of the book cover it says, "Get to the point! Is the only writing book you'll ever need" and I am saying this is the only book you should run from don't waste your money on this.
The Best Thing Since Elements of Style.......2002-10-28
This book is great! Funny, easy to read, and phenomenally useful. Everyone should own one.
Amazon.com
In nearly two decades as chairman of the board, Alan "Ace" Greenberg has successfully guided Bear Stearns & Co. through the financial marketplace's dizzying highs and sickening lows. His management philosophy, often credited to "advisor and mentor" Haimchinkel Malintz Anaynikal, was articulated over the years in a series of witty and revealing memoranda. Grouped by era and prefaced briefly by the author in Memos from the Chairman, they now offer a front-seat look at a unique business style.
Book Description
Introduction by Warren Buffett. Since taking over as chairman 18 years ago, Alan C. Greenberg--a cigar-smoking, shirt-sleeved trader from the old school--has transformed Bear Stearns into one of the most profitable investment banks in the financial industry. Many believe that periodic messages from the man who sits in the middle of the firm's trading floor set the tone at Bear Stearns. Now collected in Memos from the Chairman, here they are: humorous, sometimes biting, always inspiring memos that, taken together, comprise a unique--and uniquely simple--management philosophy. On bureaucracy: "Forget the chain of command! If you think somebody is going off the wall or his/her decision-making stinks, go around the person, and that includes me." On telephone manners: "Transferring a call seems to require more athletic ability than some of our associates possess. Be prepared for spot checks. . .those who flunk will get private lessons from me." On success: "Remember that the Green Bay Packers won because they executed the fundamentals better than their competition. Trick plays make headlines, but winners execute the basics." On arrogance: "Conceit and complacency are dangerous, particularly in our line of work. If I ever feel that the people at Bear Stearns start thinking their body odor is perfume and I cannot convince them otherwise--I will sell my stock."
66,000 copies in print
Customer Reviews:
Critical Insights & Common Sense.......2007-06-26
To begin with, an author, particularly of a business-related book could not receive a better endorsement than from Warren Buffett. For the informed reader, that could suffice for a review.
For those unfamiliar with Buffett, this book is a must read. Ace Greenberg is witty, humorous and on the money with each subject. Peter Drucker suggested that the most effective form of communication is the 1-page memo and Ace Greenberg shows uncanny mastery of that form of communication. Whether you work in a small or large organization, but particularly a large one, this book is must reading.
Enjoy.
Haimchinkel Malintz Anaynikal speaks!.......2007-04-07
Alan "Ace" Greenberg's pithy sayings apparently created a spirit of comradery which brought Bear Stearns through the tumultuous 1970s and 80s, to be the powerhouse it is today. In addition to his many talents with arbitrage, yoyo, and playing bridge, the Chairman is a funny guy. It's heartwarming to know he still has his finger in the game, and that his successor is cut of the same cloth. Save your paperclips and fix those rubber bands, people!
BTW, if you've ever been to Bear Stearns HQ on Madison avenue; the place still sizzles with elan and zeal. He's certainly built a corporate culture which has lasted. No slouchy people in jeans at the Bear; people there never got sloppy like the rest of america did. Of course, I'm an outsider looking in, but what I saw looks pretty impressive. Who would you trust with your money? The slob slouching around throwing paper clips in the trash, or the guys who are neat as pins who waste nothing? Check out their returns for the answer to that.
Another former employee review.......2006-09-09
I see that a few of us formers have reviewed this book or the soft cover version. It was just last week that I was told of the book, and as one of the many who received some of the memos I found myself reminded of the important things in business ;) A real person should answer the phone - and before the 2nd ring! Don't waste electricity, paperclips or rubber bands. Don't go nuts purchasing things you don't really need in up times. Two head can purchase equipment at better prices than 1 head. The importance of catching mistakes, owning up to them, and not hiding things in the drawers. You don't have to do something just because others are doing it. You'll find great employees in downtimes. And... how determination is so much more important then some letters after your name (unless you're a DR of course). Great reminders... for all. Thanks for the memories and lessons.
Ahhhh...Corporate America!.......2006-02-11
As I was sifting through dust-ridden literature in my library, I came across this legendary book. I too am a former employee of Bear Stearns and remember meeting Mr. Greenberg during my frequent visits to the trading floor.
I enjoyed 'Memos from the Chairman' because it's from the real Alan Greenberg, the legend....
Five stars!!!
You may actually get the point of this book.......2005-10-09
Yes, this book is repetitive, but that is what makes it so great. Ace Greenberg repeats the same message over and over again. He emphasizes, cut costs, hire people during the downtimes, forget about strategy development and he does so with humor. The employees at Bear were fortunate to have such clear communication from the top.
Every leader and manager can learn from Ace. He shows you how to communicate with the troops, get your point across and get everybody marching in the same direction.
Average customer rating:
|
The Only 250 Letters and Memos Managers Will Ever Need
Ron Tepper
Manufacturer: Wiley
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
 Communications
| Skills
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Business Writing
| Skills
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Running Meetings & Presentations
| Skills
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Leadership
| Management & Leadership
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Writing
| Reference
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0471009636 |
Book Description
The Only - 250 - Letters and Memos Managers Will Ever Need Most business people can communicate quite well when speaking to a group or an individual. But when it comes to writing a simple memo or letter—look out. They'll swamp you with needless adverbs and adjectives, create non sequiturs, mix their metaphors, and commit every other sin against the English language. If you're one of those who're guilty of this pervasive trend in business, then here's the book for you. The Only 250 Letters and Memos Managers Will Ever Need shows you how to adopt the right tone, style, and language for virtually any business letter you'll ever need to write. Follow the expert advice in this book and you'll soon see the positive correlation between good writing and increased sales and productivity. It covers everything you need to know to master the art of business letter and memo writing, including:
- Ron Tepper's four-step formula to writing a well-constructed letter or memo
- How to write exactly what you want to say
- How to convey your personality
- How to write conversationally
- When and when not to write handwritten notes
- Plus — hundreds of do's and don'ts on how to write well and sell!
- 3.5" disk which replicates all of the letters and memos
Average customer rating:
|
The Complete Customer Service Model Letter and Memo Book
Michael Ramundo
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
Communications
| Skills
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Customer Service
| Industries & Professions
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Writing
| Reference
| Subjects
| Books
| Academic & Commercial
| Business
| Children's Literature
| Editing
| Fiction
| General
| Genre Fiction
| Journalism
| Newspapers & Magazines
| Nonfiction
| Play & Scriptwriting
| Poetry
| Technical
| Travel
| Writing Skills
ASIN: 0133358038 |
Book Description
With hundreds of ready-to-use model business letters that you can adopt for your own business correspondence!
These clear, easy-to-follow sample letters cover the most important types of business correspondence:
* Proposals and requests for bids or information
* Claims, complaints, and policy statements
* Sales and solicitation letters
...And many more!
They'll make your business communications quicker, easier, and more efficient by showing you how to create outstanding letters that get your point across-and get the results you want.
Customer Reviews:
Very useful!.......2007-09-03
I love this book. I use it weekly, and most of my employees come to my office to use it as a reference. The letters are a great starting point to customize to your business, as well as excellent in and of themselves. I would recommend this to any administrative assistant or manager.
May I give back!.......2000-08-02
The cover page is very attractive but in reality the content is not so useful. First of all, there is only one example in each page. I think this is wastage of empty places. Secondly, there are very little examples for each topic. In short, I was waiting different sentences for every situation for example In Order Topic - Ordering: example sentences for introduction, development and conclusion; Order Confirmation: example sentences for introduction, development and conclusion.... But I couldn't find this in this book.
Great book for anyone with an attitude problem........1999-01-14
I mistakenly assumed all business reference guides provided, above all else, a professional format. Unfortunately, that is not the case with Muckian & Woods' Business Letter Handbook. Particularly, I was disappointed in the model letters, to say the least. I would be embarrassed to have written the letter in the complaint section. Honestly, who would begin a letter, "Am I wrong or isn't it your responsibility..."? (Mind you, I've already returned the book for credit and this quote is taken from memory, so I apologize for any miswording.) And since when is it professional to interject cute phrases like, "But seriously..." or "Just kidding..." in a congratulatory letter? What business person would write like this in a real situation? Were Muckian & Woods bored with formal business writing and wanted to loosen up all of us stuffed shirts? Maybe next time I need guidance on business letter writing, I'll call Jerry Seinfeld. He's not doing much these days.
Book Description
Communicate like a pro.
Successful managers, professionals, and assistants know that one of the most important keys to getting anything done in the business world is being understood. And with e-mail, quick notes, and computers, many people don't realize that their message just isn't getting through. With this invaluable guide, readers will learn how to construct an effective memo, write more compelling sales letters and collections letters, and communicate more professionally through e-mail.
-Includes a CD-ROM with more than 600 templates, downloadable by both Macs and PCs for editing and usage
-Features details on choosing the right medium, finding the right words, grammar basics, punctuation, formatting, and getting your point across
-Contains examples, templates, tips, and techniques for writing effective sales letters, announcements, performance evaluations, personnel letters, collections letters, answers to complaints, vendor letters, thank you letters, cover letters, and letters of recommendation
Average customer rating:
- how to write business memos
|
Basic Letter and Memo Writing
Susan H. VanHuss
Manufacturer: South-Western Educational Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
Communications
| Skills
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Office Automation
| Skills
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Communication
| Words & Language
| Reference
| Subjects
| Books
Study & Teaching
| Words & Language
| Reference
| Subjects
| Books
Writing Skills
| Writing
| Reference
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Reference
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Arts & Photography
| Subjects
| Books
All Titles
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
Arts & Photography
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
Business & Investing
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
Reference
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
ASIN: 0538727837 |
Book Description
Basic Letter and Memo Writing is an intensive, activity-oriented text-workbook that shows users how to apply basic principles of communication to write clear and effective business documents. Through numerous document examples and applications, students master basic skills and apply them in specific, real-world business situations.
Customer Reviews:
how to write business memos.......2000-02-08
please help me the guidelines to feedback the memos. and get me some free samples of memos]
Books:
- The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
- The Gregg Reference Manual
- The Gregg Reference Manual
- The Gregg Reference Manual
- The Gregg Reference Manual
- The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation
- The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive Change
- The Power of Simple Prayer: How to Talk with God about Everything
- The Practice of System and Network Administration
- The Well-Fed Writer: Financial Self-Sufficiency As a Freelance Writer in Six Months or Less
Books Index
Books Home
Recommended Books
- Men's Health: The Book of Muscle--The World's Most Authoritative Guide to Building Your Body
- Azerbaijan Diary: A Rogue Reporter's Adventures in an Oil-Rich, War-Torn, Post-Soviet Republic
- Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace
- Schaum's Outline of Statistics
- The Lorax
- Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries 1900-1969
- Unleashing the Ideavirus
- Power System Economics: Designing Markets for Electricity
- The Coming of Age of Political Economy, 1815-1825
- The Blue Book of Trees: a Guide to the Ashes, Birches, Elms, Maples and Other Broad-Leaved Trees of
Business Grammar, Style & Usage: The Most Used Desk Reference for Articulate and Polished Business Writing and Speaking by Executives Worldwide
Effective Business Writing :(A Guide For Those who Write On the Job) 2nd Edition Revised And Updated
The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course in Business Writing and Communication (36 Hour)
The Business Style Handbook: An A-to-Z Guide for Writing on the Job with Tips from Communications Experts at the Fortune 500
1001 Letters for All Occasions: The Best Models for Every Business and Personal Need
