Essentials of Business Communication

Essentials of Business Communication
Author: Mary Ellen Guffey
Publisher: South Western Educational Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Business communication
ISBN: 9780324233643

This text-workbook is a streamlined, no-nonsense approach to business communication. It takes a three-in-one approach: (1) text, (2) practical workbook, and (3) self-teaching grammar/mechanics handbook. The chapters reinforce basic writing skills, then apply these skills to a variety of memos, letters, reports, and resumes. This new edition features increased coverage of contemporary business communication issues including oral communication, electronic forms of communication, diversity and ethics.

Management Information Systems

Management Information Systems
Author: Kenneth C. Laudon
Publisher: Pearson Educación
Total Pages: 618
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789702605287

Management Information Systems provides comprehensive and integrative coverage of essential new technologies, information system applications, and their impact on business models and managerial decision-making in an exciting and interactive manner. The twelfth edition focuses on the major changes that have been made in information technology over the past two years, and includes new opening, closing, and Interactive Session cases.

Practical Research

Practical Research
Author: Paul D. Leedy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2013-07-30
Genre: Research
ISBN: 9781292021171

For undergraduate or graduate courses that include planning, conducting, and evaluating research. A do-it-yourself, understand-it-yourself manual designed to help students understand the fundamental structure of research and the methodical process that leads to valid, reliable results. Written in uncommonly engaging and elegant prose, this text guides the reader, step-by-step, from the selection of a problem, through the process of conducting authentic research, to the preparation of a completed report, with practical suggestions based on a solid theoretical framework and sound pedagogy. Suitable as the core text in any introductory research course or even for self-instruction, this text will show students two things: 1) that quality research demands planning and design; and, 2) how their own research projects can be executed effectively and professionally.

Steps to Writing Well with Additional Readings

Steps to Writing Well with Additional Readings
Author: Jean Wyrick
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-11-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781133309239

Reliable and straightforward, this text has helped thousands of students learn to write well. Jean Wyrick's rhetorically organized STEPS TO WRITING WELL WITH ADDITIONAL READINGS is known for its student-friendly tone and the clear way it presents the basics of essay writing in an easy-to-follow progression of useful lessons and activities. Through straightforward advice and thoughtful assignments, as well as Wyrick's precise instruction, the text gives students the practice they need to approach writing well-constructed essays with confidence. Everything students need to begin, organize, and revise writing--from choosing a topic to developing the essay to polishing prose--is right here! This special COURSEMATE EDITION features in-text icons that direct students online to CourseMate, where they will find additional practice and resources, writing exercises, supplemental assignments, multimedia that enhances and expands on topics in the text, and suggestions for further learning. By connecting the text to online assets, STEPS TO WRITING WELL WITH ADDITIONAL READINGS: COURSEMATE EDITION gives students a multidimensional learning experience.

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends
Author: Nicole Perlroth
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2021-02-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1526629836

WINNER OF THE FT & McKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021 The instant New York Times bestseller A Financial Times and The Times Book of the Year 'A terrifying exposé' The Times 'Part John le Carré . . . Spellbinding' New Yorker We plug in anything we can to the internet. We can control our entire lives, economy and grid via a remote web control. But over the past decade, as this transformation took place, we never paused to think that we were also creating the world's largest attack surface. And that the same nation that maintains the greatest cyber advantage on earth could also be among its most vulnerable. Filled with spies, hackers, arms dealers and a few unsung heroes, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends is an astonishing and gripping feat of journalism. Drawing on years of reporting and hundreds of interviews, Nicole Perlroth lifts the curtain on a market in shadow, revealing the urgent threat faced by us all if we cannot bring the global cyber arms race to heel.

Patterns for College Writing

Patterns for College Writing
Author: Laurie G. Kirszner
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 837
Release: 2011-12-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0312676840

Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell, authors with nearly thirty years of experience teaching college writing, know what works in the classroom and have a knack for picking just the right readings. In Patterns for College Writing, they provide students with exemplary rhetorical models and instructors with class-tested selections that balance classic and contemporary essays. Along with more examples of student writing than any other reader, Patterns has the most comprehensive coverage of active reading, research, and the writing process, with a five-chapter mini-rhetoric; the clearest explanations of the patterns of development; and the most thorough apparatus of any rhetorical reader, all reasons why Patterns for College Writing is the best-selling reader in the country. And the new edition includes exciting new readings and expanded coverage of critical reading, working with sources, and research. It is now available as an interactive Bedford e-book and in a variety of other e-book formats that can be downloaded to a computer, tablet, or e-reader. Read the preface.

Business Communication

Business Communication
Author: Mary Ellen Guffey
Publisher: Scarborough, Ont. : Nelson Thomson Learning
Total Pages: 567
Release: 2001
Genre: Business communication
ISBN: 9780176169299

Writing Spaces: Readings on Writings, Vol. 2

Writing Spaces: Readings on Writings, Vol. 2
Author: Charles Lowe
Publisher: The Saylor Foundation
Total Pages: 366
Release:
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Volumes in Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing offer multiple perspec- tives on a wide-range of topics about writing. In each chapter, authors present their unique views, insights, and strategies for writing by ad- dressing the undergraduate reader directly. Drawing on their own ex- periences, these teachers-as-writers invite students to join in the larger conversation about the craft of writing. Consequently, each essay func- tions as a standalone text that can easily complement other selected readings in writing or writing-intensive courses across the disciplines at any level.