Bøger af Dona J Young

Dona J. Young's The Writing Workshop: Grammar, Style, and Formatting for Academic Writing serves as a critical and engaging launchpad for undergraduate and graduate learners seeking to enhance their written communication. This accessible guide illuminates the fundamentals of grammar, style, and formatting essential for producing clear, professional academic writing. The guide also stresses the use of unbiased and gender-neutral language. Structured in 12 comprehensive workshops, the guide begins by instructing learners how to use online writing to build professional relationships, and then segues into strategies for overcoming writer's block. It simplifies the use of commas, semicolons, colons, and dashes, and clarifies the importance of pronoun usage and viewpoint. Readers gain valuable insights into using unbiased language, employing the active voice, and crafting parallel structures. The book concludes with a focus on conciseness, tone, possessives, capitalization, and the differences between MLA and APA formats. These essential topics not only enhance writing fluency but also adhere to the high standards of academic discourse. Interspersed throughout each chapter are exercises to give learners the practice they need to apply the principles in their own writing. The Writing Workshop is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in academic writing, research methodology, and any curriculum emphasizing written communication and critical thinking skills. As students delve into this rich resource, they develop and refine the skills necessary for academic and professional success, making the book an indispensable addition to their scholarly toolkit.

Effective communication is critical for career success in all professions. This text helps learners improve their communication and writing skills by breaking down the process and simplifying each step. Learners improve their skills as well as their ability to solve problems and make decisions. By breaking content into cohesive chunks, this text is ideal for online learning. Online learning activities are included at the end of each chapter.

A Guide for Business Writing covers principles of grammar, punctuation, and style resulting in writing that is correct, clear, and concise. The book builds a foundation of core concepts so that complex concepts become easy to apply. Trust the process and transform your writing by focusing on the simple, not the complex.

The Mechanics of Writing takes the mystery out of punctuation and provides practice on essential writing skills. This book uses a unique method to build writing skills.

When you edit, do you sometimes feel like a "broken record," going over the same sentence time and again before finally basing your decision on a guess? Now is the time to stop the uncertainty-it is costing you too much time, effort, and credibility. This book takes the mystery out of how to produce good writing by giving you 11 proven steps to improve your writing instantly. Each chapter walks you step by step from one principle to the next so that the complex becomes simple. Eleven Steps to Instantly Improve Your Writing will save you time and frustration; Young has used this method with thousands of corporate executives in workshops across the U.S.

Writing on the job is for professionals who want to thrive on the job. As you work through each chapter, you integrate leading edge practices for writing and communication into your daily activities.To write faster, embrace the process by applying composing tools and templates to get your ideas down quickly.To write better, develop your editing skills--effective editing takes the mystery out of how to produce correct, clear, and concise writing. As you learn principles that are easy to apply, you make confident decisions, save yourself time, and improve your credibility.To write smarter, focus on purpose and context. By making your purpose easily accessible, you give your reader maximum value with minimum effort.Do the work, and you will see the results: when your readers have easy access to your message, you get better results.

Angry E-Mail: How to Put a Lid on It gives professionals options for managing e-mail effectively, especially when tensions run high. By understanding readers' expectations, you can respond so that you not only solve the problem but also enhance the relationship. You see, it is your relationships that support you in getting your job done-not simply the exchange of information through messages. Also covered are e-mail facts and best practices, simple apologies, the "you" viewpoint versus "I" statements, micro-messages, and bad news messages.