Ultimate Guide to Business Writing: All the Secrets of Creating and Managing Business Documents
The Ultimate Guide to Business Writing is a comprehensive guide on how to write any kind of business document. Written clearly in an engaging voice, it explains in depth the whole process: from determining objectives to establishing readers’ needs, conducting research, outlining, and designing a template; to writing the first draft; to editing for meaning, accuracy, concision, style and emotional impact; to creating glossaries and indices; to proofreading and working with reviewers.

The book also explains how to exploit the psychology of perception and motivation, collaborate effectively with business colleagues, manage documents holistically across an organisation, and deal with the other everyday practicalities of managing knowledge in a corporate environment. Every section of the book is packed with questions to stimulate thinking and generate meaningful answers, and dozens of examples of what works and why. The book’s also rich in practical examples drawn from real life, anecdotes, humour, and visual aids. But the advice isn’t just practical and anecdotal: it’s also rigorously supported by scientific evidence from notable linguists and psychologists such as Steven Pinker, Daniel Goleman and Yellowlees Douglas. And anyone keen to explore further will benefit from the bibliography and links to videos and other online resources.

The book is ideal not just for professional business writers, such as editors, technical writers, copywriters and creative directors; it’s also suitable for anyone whose job requires them to write, whether it’s something as simple as an email or as complex as a set of policies or a handbook.

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Ultimate Guide to Business Writing: All the Secrets of Creating and Managing Business Documents
The Ultimate Guide to Business Writing is a comprehensive guide on how to write any kind of business document. Written clearly in an engaging voice, it explains in depth the whole process: from determining objectives to establishing readers’ needs, conducting research, outlining, and designing a template; to writing the first draft; to editing for meaning, accuracy, concision, style and emotional impact; to creating glossaries and indices; to proofreading and working with reviewers.

The book also explains how to exploit the psychology of perception and motivation, collaborate effectively with business colleagues, manage documents holistically across an organisation, and deal with the other everyday practicalities of managing knowledge in a corporate environment. Every section of the book is packed with questions to stimulate thinking and generate meaningful answers, and dozens of examples of what works and why. The book’s also rich in practical examples drawn from real life, anecdotes, humour, and visual aids. But the advice isn’t just practical and anecdotal: it’s also rigorously supported by scientific evidence from notable linguists and psychologists such as Steven Pinker, Daniel Goleman and Yellowlees Douglas. And anyone keen to explore further will benefit from the bibliography and links to videos and other online resources.

The book is ideal not just for professional business writers, such as editors, technical writers, copywriters and creative directors; it’s also suitable for anyone whose job requires them to write, whether it’s something as simple as an email or as complex as a set of policies or a handbook.

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Ultimate Guide to Business Writing: All the Secrets of Creating and Managing Business Documents

Ultimate Guide to Business Writing: All the Secrets of Creating and Managing Business Documents

by Julian Maynard-Smith
Ultimate Guide to Business Writing: All the Secrets of Creating and Managing Business Documents

Ultimate Guide to Business Writing: All the Secrets of Creating and Managing Business Documents

by Julian Maynard-Smith

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The Ultimate Guide to Business Writing is a comprehensive guide on how to write any kind of business document. Written clearly in an engaging voice, it explains in depth the whole process: from determining objectives to establishing readers’ needs, conducting research, outlining, and designing a template; to writing the first draft; to editing for meaning, accuracy, concision, style and emotional impact; to creating glossaries and indices; to proofreading and working with reviewers.

The book also explains how to exploit the psychology of perception and motivation, collaborate effectively with business colleagues, manage documents holistically across an organisation, and deal with the other everyday practicalities of managing knowledge in a corporate environment. Every section of the book is packed with questions to stimulate thinking and generate meaningful answers, and dozens of examples of what works and why. The book’s also rich in practical examples drawn from real life, anecdotes, humour, and visual aids. But the advice isn’t just practical and anecdotal: it’s also rigorously supported by scientific evidence from notable linguists and psychologists such as Steven Pinker, Daniel Goleman and Yellowlees Douglas. And anyone keen to explore further will benefit from the bibliography and links to videos and other online resources.

The book is ideal not just for professional business writers, such as editors, technical writers, copywriters and creative directors; it’s also suitable for anyone whose job requires them to write, whether it’s something as simple as an email or as complex as a set of policies or a handbook.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780367700195
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 03/16/2021
Pages: 200
Product dimensions: 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Julian Maynard-Smith is a business writer and knowledge manager with over 30 years of experience, principally in financial services and IT. He’s worked in the UK, France and Germany, and runs his own company providing consultancy, training and coaching.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

About the author viii

1 How to write any document 1

Consider what outcomes you want 1

Research your readers 2

Gather your information 10

Select/adapt a template 14

Pick a filename 22

Design the structure 23

Write the first draft 29

Revise for meaning 45

Trim verbosity and cliches 72

Simplify your sentences 87

Revise for style and emotion 96

Fix your punctuation 116

Check your grammar 134

Check your spelling and capitalisation 145

Fix your formatting 149

(Optional) Add a glossary 153

(Optional) Create an index 155

Proofread 156

(Recommended) Get reviews 159

2 Managing knowledge 163

Organise across everything 163

Create a universal taxonomy 165

Shorten the reader's journey 165

Collaborate 166

Share knowledge across projects 166

Nurture information 167

Avoid duplication 167

Design for obviousness 168

Pull rather than push 169

Choose the right content-management system 170

Run a knowledge 'health check' 170

Provide 'knowledge about the knowledge' 171

3 Further writing tips 172

Choosing images 172

Printing documents 173

Creating slideshows 174

Creating PDFs 177

Free writing tools available on the web 177

Final thoughts 179

Bibliography 181

Index 183

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