The Business Style Handbook ─ An A-to-Z Guide for Effective Writing on the Job

Revised and updated with 250 new A-to-Z entries, for a total of more than 1,500 entries selected for their relevance to business.

In today's business world, everyone writes for a living. "The Business Style Handbook" is a resource to help people do so more effectively. Whether you write emails, memos, proposals, letters, presentations, marketing materials or reports; whether you write on a computer or mobile device; whether you are instant messaging or texting, it all constitutes writing.

Your writing skills are on display as never before and, in the workplace, it's important to get it right. Your reputation and success in the business world increasingly depend on it.

Helen Cunningham is director of corporate communications at a financial services company in New York. Previously, she worked at The Ecomist Group as editor of Business Latin America. At Philip Morris International, she was a business communications specialist. She also worked on a joint venture in Moscow and teaches English as a foreign language.Brenda Greene is the author of five books and a former editor at Whitney Communications, Working Woman magazine and the rth Jersey Herald & News. She is co-author of "The Web 2.0 Job Finder" and the author of both editions of "Get the Interview Every Time: Proven Resume and Cover Letter Strategies from Fortune 500 Hiring Professionals" and "You''ve Got the Interview ... w What?" She coauthored "America''s Girl: The Incredible Story of How Swimmer Gertrude Ederle Changed the Nation," which won the International Swimming Hall of Fame 2010 Buck Dawson