Business Writing Workbook

IMPROVE YOUR WRITING SKILLS!

Business Writing:

A Roadmap to Better Communications

Letters Memos Emails Reports Proposals

♦ Reduce your writing

time by 30%!

♦ Decrease errors! ♦ Use these tips and

exercises to build your confidence in style, grammar, sentence structure and fluency!

By Karen Rayl

Business leaders claim that business writing is an essential — yet hard-to-find — skill in today’s workplace. This workbook will build your confidence and proficiency in composing effective letters, memos, emails and more. You will discover the four-step writing process that will help decrease your writing time and avoid writer’s block. Through exercises and tips, you will develop your ability to write clearly and concisely, as well as increase your grammar and proofreading mastery to make each document error-free!

Business Writing: A Roadmap to Better Communications

BUSINESS WRITING: A ROADMAP TO BETTER COMMUNICATION By Karen Rayl

Soft Skills Publishing

P. O. Box 118697 Carrollton, TX 75011-8697 www.softskillspublishing.com Printed in the United States of America. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, in any form or by any means, without permission in writing from the publisher. ©2002 by Bassham, Rayl & Associates, LLC ISBN 1-929728-03-4

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IMPROVE YOUR WRITING SKILLS!

ABOUT THE AUTHORS Karen Rayl and David Bassham bring their own unique perspectives to the top issues in today’s organizations. Karen brings her more than 20 years of corporate communications and career counseling experience to these issues, while David provides the psychological perspective with his background in counseling psychology. Karen Rayl is a training and communications professional. In 1998, she teamed with David Bassham to form Bassham, Rayl & Associates, which provides speaking, training and consulting on many human-resource-related topics. In addition to the two books co-authored with David Bassham, (Six Steps to Building a...