FranklinCovey Style Guide for Business and Technical Communication


Book Description

This book can help any writer produce documents that achieve outstanding results. Created by FranklinCovey, the world-renowned leader in helping organizations enhance individual effectiveness, this edition fully reflects today?s online media and global business challenges.




FranklinCovey Style Guide


Book Description

FranklinCovey Style Guide: For Business and Technical Communication can help any writer produce documents that achieve outstanding results. Created by FranklinCovey, the world-renowned leader in helping organizations enhance individual effectiveness, this edition fully reflects today’s online media and global business challenges. The only style guide used in FranklinCovey’s own renowned Writing Advantage TM and Technical Writing Advantage TM programs, it covers everything from document design and graphics to sentence style and word choice. This edition’s many improvements include extensive new coverage of graphics, writing for online media, and international business English. Through dozens of examples and model documents, writers learn how to overcome “writer’s block” and efficiently create documents from start to finish. FranklinCovey’s experts show how to get powerful results from every email; add distinctiveness and power to any online presence; write far more effective proposals, letters, memos, reports, and resumes; and improve all forms of documentation, from business procedures to highly technical content. You’ll learn how to quickly discover and prioritize the information you need, whether you’re planning a presentation, leading a meeting, or managing a project. The authors reveal how to design visuals that communicate messages instantly and intuitively, and use charts, color, illustrations, maps, photos, and tables to supercharge any presentation. Packed with up-to-the-minute examples, this A-Z guidebook can help you write more effectively no matter who you are — whether you’re a business or sales professional who must motivate and persuade, a technical professional who must explain challenging content more clearly and accurately, or a student who needs stronger writing skills to succeed in school and in your career.




Style Guide


Book Description

Improve your writing at school, at work, and at home. Much more than a grammar and punctuation handbook, the renowned FranklinCovey Style Guide helps you: produce documents that reflect quality writing standards; access more than 110 topics from A to Z, covering everything from document design, graphics, and parts of speech to punctuation, sentence style, and word choice; create documents from start to finish and avoid writers block; write effective letters, memos, and resumes with the help of more than 30 model documents; design effective, understandable graphics that enhance and convey your message; discover and prioritize information. FranklinCovey is a leading provider of leadership, personal productivity, and effective communication workshops. Two programsWriting Advantage and Technical Writing Advantage--help you learn how to write documents that achieve the results you expect. Both workshops feature the FranklinCovey Style Guide.




Franklin Covey Style Guide for Business and Technical Communication


Book Description

This book is a standard reference for business and technical communication writing. Much more than a grammar and punctuation handbook, it helps you to: produce documents that reflect quality writing standards; access more than 110 topics, covering everything from document design, graphics, and parts of speech to punctuation, sentence style, and word choice; create documents from start to finish and avoid writer's block; write effective letters, memos, and resumés with the help of more than 30 model documents; design effective, understandable graphics that enhance and convey your message; discover and prioritize information.




Style Guide for Business and Technical Communication


Book Description

This guide provides tips for making your message accessible, easy to understand, and relevant. In the sections on writing and revising, organization, emphasis, page layout, and online documentation, you will find both process and format suggestions. You will also find new and colorful sections on graphics for documents, graphics for presentations, color, charts, maps, and photographs to prepare visually effective documents.







Technical Marketing Communication


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Toothpaste . . . disposable razors . . . security systems . . . farm equipment. Those products have one thing in comÂmon. Their marketing messages emphasize technical features to drive sales. This book not only explains how technical product marketing is unique, but also how to write and design promotional materials using: The Òbenefit of the benefitÓ to tell a marketing story; 3 ÒAsÓ every headline must achieve; 5 call-to-action options; Focal and emotional integration; Grids to design effective layouts; Icons, indexes, and symbols for images; And much more! After reading this book, you'll be prepared for every asÂpect of technical marketing-whether you want to oversee marketing creatives or earn extra money as a freelancer.




Computer Games and Technical Communication


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Taking as its point of departure the fundamental observation that games are both technical and symbolic, this collection investigates the multiple intersections between the study of computer games and the discipline of technical and professional writing. Divided into five parts, Computer Games and Technical Communication engages with questions related to workplace communities and gamic simulations; industry documentation; manuals, gameplay, and ethics; training, testing, and number crunching; and the work of games and gamifying work. In that computer games rely on a complex combination of written, verbal, visual, algorithmic, audio, and kinesthetic means to convey information, technical and professional writing scholars are uniquely poised to investigate the intersection between the technical and symbolic aspects of the computer game complex. The contributors to this volume bring to bear the analytic tools of the field to interpret the roles of communication, production, and consumption in this increasingly ubiquitous technical and symbolic medium.




The 5 Choices


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“The 5 Choices provides the methods to get the right things done, not try to get everything done, and to feel like you made a meaningful contribution at the end of the day.” —Kevin Turner, former COO of Microsoft For fans of Deep Work, Great at Work, and the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The 5 Choices is an essential guide for understanding productivity and time-management in the 21st century. Every day brings us a crushing wave of demands: a barrage of texts, emails, interruptions, meetings, phone calls, tweets, breaking news—not to mention the high-pressure demands of our jobs—which can be overwhelming and exhausting. The sheer number of distractions can threaten our ability to think clearly, make good decisions, and accomplish what matters most, leaving us worn out and frustrated. From the business experts at FranklinCovey, The 5 Choices is an exploration of modern productivity. It offers powerful insights drawn from the latest neuroscience research and decades of experience in the time-management field to help you master your attention and energy management. The 5 Choices is time management redefined: through five fundamental choices, it increases the productivity of individuals, teams, and organizations, and empowers individuals to make selective, high-impact choices about where to invest their valuable time, attention, and energy. The 5 Choices—like “Act on the Important, Don’t React to the Urgent” and “Rule Your Technology, Don’t Let It Rule You”—will not only increase your productivity, but also provide a renewed sense of engagement and accomplishment. You will quickly find yourself moving beyond thinking, “I was so busy today, what did I actually accomplish?” to confidently realizing “I did everything I needed to accomplish today—and did it meaningfully.”