The McGraw-Hill Handbook of Business Letters, 4/e


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THE CLASSIC BESTSELLING GUIDE Revised, expanded, and updated to meet the demands of doing business in the Digital Age with sample letters, e mail, and voice messages. The McGraw-Hill Handbook of Business Letters /b> includes everything you need to know to write clear, concise, effective letters for any business situation. Whether you're creating an in-house memo for your fellow co-workers or specialized correspondence for customers and clients, this all-in-one guide will show you the proper style, format, and type to use in all your professional communications. With this comprehensive resource, you can easily access hundreds of sample letters for a wide range of business applications. You can find exactly the right words for the right job and strike a perfect balance between formal and casual styles. Best of all, you can communicate with confidence--and go "write" to the top--in business and in life. LEARN HOW TO WRITE, DEVELOP, AND IMPROVE: * Formal business letters * Customer communications * Company-wide memos * Professional cover letters * Inquiry and request letters * Perfectly formatted faxes * Credit and collection letters * Confirmations and follow-ups * Announcements and congratulations * Service letters or complaints * Effective e-mail




The McGraw-Hill Handbook of Business Letters


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Gives advice on composing effective business letters and provides more than a hundred sample letters related to special requests, payment transmittals, sales, promotion, credit, collection, orders, supply problems, and retirement.




The Encyclopedia of Business Letters, Faxes, and E-mail


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A revised, updated edition with more than three hundred sample letters, memos, and e-mails, and new tips on how to use and adapt them. The era of long, leisurely letters is gone—no one has time to waste in today’s workplace, and communication revolves around fast faxes, instant e-mails, crisp memos, and concise messages. That’s where The Encyclopedia of Business Letters, Faxes, and E-mails can help—whether you’re starting out in the corporate world or just want to feel more confident in your daily business writing. You’ll find more than three hundred sample letters, memos, and e-mails you can use as-is or adapt for your own purposes. Letters are organized into chapters by category, and a detailed table of contents guides you quickly to the one that best suits your needs. Each is accompanied by useful information, including how to format, design, print, and deliver your correspondence for best effect. This revised edition contains more help than ever, with: • An expanded introduction to letters, faxes, and e-mails, with new tips on the best use of each • Guidance on the nuances of e-mail, including how to avoid common pitfalls • Dozens of additional sample e-mail formats to meet today’s communication needs •. More focused directions for organizing your thoughts and composing even the toughest kinds of correspondence




The McGraw-Hill Handbook of More Business Letters


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Over 300 time-saving model business letters! A virtual business-in-a--book, The McGraw-Hill Handbook of More Business Letters helps you smoothly and effectively handle just about any business scenario you'll ever encounter. From product announcements to responses to complaints. From hard-working sales letters to contract negotiations, nondisclosure agreements, requests for payment and scores more! Here are 300 new, time- and work-saving letters you can use to avoid procrastination and unprofessional delays. Author Ann Poe—who also wrote the popular McGraw-Hill Handbook of Business Letters,—puts even more useful, up-to-date information at your fingertips: *Suggestions on how to get the most from your computer *Guidance on form and style to make your letters, memos, and faxes look great *Tips for using e-mail to its best advantage *Advice on security and protecting private business information Get your copy today!




The United States Catalog


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Business Letter Handbook


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With hundreds of ready-to-use model business letters that you can adapt for your own business correspondence! These clear, easy-to-follow sample letters cover the most important type 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 results you want. Effective phrases • Clear terminology • Proper format




International Business Correspondence


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International business correspondence is not simply writing or information exchange. It is something that you want others to know about you – to know about your business and the way you deal with business transactions. It is by the way you create your letter that your reader can identify whether you are friendly, rude, or you just simply want to do business. Your letter shows your attitude. This is one reason why it is important to consider your way of writing, write professionally and with courtesy. Success of business transactions is not only dependent on your ability to talk and communicate verbally, but also the way you communicate in letters. How important is learning the proper way of writing business letters? This book will help you to improve your written communication by guiding you through the steps and guidelines of making an effective letter. Aside from that, you will learn to see that planning is important. Gathering information and doing some research will help you. As you go through answer complaints, it will save you to make adjustments, it is important and friendly to reply to inquiries, it is good to be precise in your quotations, it is proper to acknowledge placed orders or acknowledge payment, it is worth to check all outgoing orders for shipment and delivery, it is important to have an insurance policy, it is tedious to deal internationally without bank transactions, and it is by connection that you can increase your sales. You need to connect to your customers and readers in order to build a good working relationship. If you are able to establish a good relationship, they will value you as their business partners. Skills in creating business letters are important for the success of your business. Business letter writing skills will also boost your confidence as a businessman and will help boosting your business as well. This book aims to help students to develop their skills and confidence in writing international busi-ness letters. It can also serve as a reference for students at college and university levels.




The AMA Handbook of Business Letters


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This book/CD-ROM reference for professionals teaches letter-writing basics and offers style and grammar guidelines, along with some 365 sample letters for sales, marketing, and public relations, vendor and supplier issues, credit and collections, transmittal and confirmation, personnel matters, and every other business situation. Appendices list frequently misused words, punctuation guidelines, abbreviations, and telephone and online grammar hotlines. The CD-ROM contains all of the sample letters from the book, which can be customized for immediate use. Seglin teaches magazine publishing in the graduate department of writing, literature, and publishing at Emerson College. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR




The Business Writer's Handbook


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"More than just a guide, The Business Writer's Handbook places writing in a real-world context with quick and easy access to hundreds of business writing topics and scores of sample documents. The handbook now offers up-to-date coverage of the job search, tips on professionalism, and advice about adapting to evolving workplace technologies."--Publisher's description