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GET TO THE POINT!
Painless Advice for Writing Memos, Letters, and E-mails
Your Colleagues and Clients Will Understand
By Elizabeth Danziger
Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 0-609-80760-9
272 pages, $14.00 (paper)
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Cut your writing time in half by using the simple, time-tested techniques of GET TO THE POINT! You'll accomplish more, and your readers will understand your ideas the first time they read them. You will save time and boost your career by getting to the point … no more follow-up phone calls and memos because people didn't understand what you wrote.

Business people today have neither the time nor the patience to decode a message that doesn't get right to the point. Chances are, you only have one opportunity to get your idea or request into the mind of your reader. Getting to the point means getting your point-your idea, proposal, or request-into the mind of your reader. GET TO THE POINT! will guide you through the real process of business writing-from the moment you feel the urge to run screaming from the task, through the process of envisioning and then crafting your message, to helping you correct grammar, punctuation, style, and flow.

These techniques have never been compiled in a single place...until now. Whether you're an executive whose writing is too stiff, a technical expert who wants to communicate in plain English, or an assistant who needs to improve your writing so you can clean up your boss's work, you probably need help. Here, finally, is the clever, informative book you've been looking for.

Recommend this book to anyone who dreads writing - or whose writing you dread reading. You'll be glad you did!

ELIZABETH DANZIGER is the founder of Worktalk Communications Consulting, which serves clients such as Ernst & Young, Norwest, and the United States Department of Commerce. A frequent contributor to consumer magazines like Glamour, New Woman, Self, Family Circle and Reader's Digest and many professional publications, Danziger lives in California.