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Financial Times Essential Guide to Business Writing, The: How To Write To Engage, Persuade and Sell

Published by FT Publishing International (September 7, 2012) © 2013

Ian Atkinson
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    Financial Times Essential Guide to Business Writing, The ,1st edition

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    Whether you are writing a proposal, a report, a presentation or an email, this book will show you how to write to persuade staff, colleagues, board directors and customers. The Financial Times Essential Guide to Business Writing demonstrates how your choice of language can influence your reader. It gives you clear examples to show you the dos and don'ts of successful business writing and essential tips that are proven to make your writing more effective.

    It shows you how to write for different audiences and in different media using style, structure and the psychology of language to your advantage. It also gives you the writing secrets used by the world's best advertising writers, which you can use to great effect in your own business writing.

     

    About the author

    Introduction

     

    part 1 Planning

    1   Powerful business writing: Your objective

    2   Proposition: The thin end of your wedge

    3   Content: Interrogation & insight

    4   Context: Audience & medium

    5   Concept: Bringing your story to life

    6   Essential Plan checklist

     

    part 2 Doing

    7  Punctuation, grammar & usage 

    8  How to harness style & structure

    9  How to craft that draft

    10  How to win hearts & minds

    11  How to be utterly fascinating

    12  How to be irresistibly persuasive

    13  Twenty-five quick wins

    14  Essential Do checklist

     

    part 3 Reviewing

    15  Perfect, prune & polish

    16  Giving and getting feedback

    17  Getting better

    18  Essential Review checklist

     

    Index

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