eBook Revising Business Prose download
by Richard A. Lanham

Author: Richard A. Lanham
Publisher: Scribner; Highlighting and Underlining edition (June 1981)
Language: English
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ADDENDUM: Richard Lanham's book also appears in a less expensive version Longman Guide to Revising Prose that reprints the 134-page main text. The excluded 30 pages comprise a brief glossary of grammatical terms and 35 exercises for the reader
ADDENDUM: Richard Lanham's book also appears in a less expensive version Longman Guide to Revising Prose that reprints the 134-page main text. The excluded 30 pages comprise a brief glossary of grammatical terms and 35 exercises for the reader.
For years, Professor Lanham has been after us about wordiness.
Ships from and sold by witsendbooks3. For years, Professor Lanham has been after us about wordiness. He calls it the Official Style; it's practiced whenever writers want to sound important, and to achieve this effect inflate what they write like Macy's Parade balloons. His "Paramedic Method" of rescuing hyper-inflated prose is directed in this slender volume to writers of business communications: memos, reports, policies, procedures, you name it.
Richard a. Lanham-Revising Prose-Macmillan (1992) - Free download as PDF File . df), Text File . xt) or read online for free. A teacher of business writing tells us not that "People entering business today must learn to speak effectively," but "One of these factors is the seemingly increasing awareness of the idea chat to succeed in business, it is imperative that the yo ung person entering a business career possess definite skill in oral communication.
ADDENDUM: Richard Lanham's book also appears in a less expensive version Longman Guide to Revising Prose that reprints the 134-page main text.
See a Problem? We’d love your help. Lanham (born 1936) is probably most widely known for his textbooks on revising prose to improve style and clarify thought. He is also a notable scholar of the history of rhetoric who has published notable books on the subject
Richard A. He is also a notable scholar of the history of rhetoric who has published notable books on the subject. Lanham was educated at Sidwell Friends School and Yale University (. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, and president of Rhetorica, In. a consulting firm
by Richard A. Lanham. Two things taught me to write: this book and reading a lot of CS Lewis. Both will give you a lesson in the key to good communication - verbs.
by Richard A. Most technical reports use a form of "to be" as the verb in almost every sentence.
Lanham is the author of numerous books on writing, including Style: An Anti-textbook, The Motives of Eloquence: Literary Rhetoric in the Renaissance, Revising Prose, Revising Business Prose, Analyzing Prose, and Literacy and the Survival of Humanism. Richard Lanham married Carol Dana in 1957. Библиографические данные. Revising Prose Scribner English Series.