John C. Brereton and Margaret Mansfield

Writing on the Job

A Norton Pocket Guide

A quick-reference guide to professional writing essentials-the formats you need to know to communicate effectively in any business or organization.

This brief guide offers practical help for tackling on-the-job writing tasks. From business letters, memos, e-mail, and resumes to news and feature stories, biographical sketches, agendas, minutes, press kits, proposals, training manuals, and brochures, John Brereton and Margaret Mansfield introduce writers to these common business formats, provide more than 45 annotated examples, and give nuts-and-bolts advice for writing clearly, concisely, and persuasively. Professional polish is the aim of two chapters devoted to editing, style, punctuation, documentation, plagiarism, and libel, while a resource chapter points readers to more in-depth, specialized reference manuals. With an easy-access two-color reference system and a handy pocket size, Writing on the Job is an ideal, portable reference.

John C. Brereton and Margaret Mansfield are professors of English at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, where they teach professional writing and supervise the English internship program.