Impact: A Guide to Business Communication (7th Edition)

Business & Money

Margot Northey

Skills

Pearson Education Canada

Product Description \nNote: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyBCommLab does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MyBCommLab, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information.\nA concise, practical guide to writing effectively in the world of business.\nImpact will help readers build confidence and competence to speak in public, create and give oral presentations, handle a job interview, or run a meeting. It offers advice on writing, including letters, memos, and reports and specific strategies for attacking common business-writing problems. Its practical approach covers tips for collaboration and teamwork and contains explanations and exercises to give its users better results.\nIf you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyBCommLab, search for:\n0134712536 / 9780134712536 Impact: A Guide to Business Communication, Ninth Canadian Edition Plus MyBCommLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package\nPackage consists of: \n0134310802 / 9780134310800 Impact: A Guide to Business Communication, Ninth Canadian Edition 
 0134643011 / 9780134643014 MyBCommLab with Pearson eText -- Standalone Access Card -- for Impact: A Guide to Business Communication, Ninth Canadian Edition\nAbout the Author 
Margot Northey was professor and dean of Queen’s School of Business, Queen’s University, from 1995 to 2002. Previously she was a professor and director of communications at the Ivey School (University of Western Ontario), and, before that, founding director of the writing program at the University of Toronto in Mississauga. She has also been a visiting professor at the Helsinki School of Economics.\nDr. Northey is the author of many articles and books, including Making Sense: A Student’s Guide to Writing and Style,now in its seventh edition, The Haunted Wilderness: The Gothic and Grotesque in Canadian Fiction, and Writer’s Choice. She has served as a consultant and has given communications seminars to business and government organizations from coast to coast and previously was on the board of directors of the International Association for Business Communication and of the International Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. Currently she is a director of a number of corporate boards, including Alliance Atlantis Communications, Fraser Papers, Nexfor, Stressgen, and Wawanesa Insurance.\nJana Seijts is a lecturer in management communication at the Ivey Business School and a lecturer in engineering communication at the Faculty of Engineering at Western University. She has over 20 years’ experience teaching professional and technical writing and oral communication courses at the university level. She has also taught courses at both Red River Community College and Fanshawe College in the general education program. Prior to arriving at Ivey, Ms. Seijts was the coordinator and English language specialist at Writing Support Services from 2000 to 2009 at Western. In 2000, she started Canada’s first summer university transition program in academic writing. \nMs. Seijts is the coauthor of A Concise Guide to Technical Communication, first and second Canadian editions. She is also the author of numerous business cases in management communication and general management. Most recently, her case studies, “When the Twitterverse Turns on You” (March 2014) and “Who Should Take the Fall?” (July/August 2015) were featured in the Harvard Business Review.

Impact: A Guide to Business Communication, Ninth Edition (9th Edition)

Jana Seijts

Pearson Canada

Impact: A Guide to Business Communication

Prentice Hall (Higher Education Division, Pearson Education)

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General principles of effective writing for university students.

Making Sense : A student's guide to writing and style (Making Sense)

Oxford University Press

Making Sense: A Students Guide to Writing and Style

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Making Sense is a continuing bestseller among students who want success with essays, reports and exams. Concise, clear and lively, it addresses typical writing problems, from how to conquer writer's block and use secondary sources without plagiarism, to the secrets of creating a forcefulstyle. With simple guidelines and examples, it shows how to organise information, how to avoid common student errors in grammar and punctuation and how to document references.  This new edition provides more examples on various aspects of essay-writing, and enlarged discussions on information searches and using sources and quotations. It also includes a new chapter on how to write applications for employment.  Widely recommended by professors in a variety of courses, Making Sense is an indispensable aid for students who need to write.

Making Sense 3ed

Words, Language & Grammar

Oxford University Press, Canada

A new addition to the best-selling Making Sense series, Making Sense in Psychology is an indispensable research and writing guide for students in psychology. Specifically designed to help psychology students gather information about the kinds of topics they will encounter in their courses, this book offers up-to-date, detailed information on writing essays, research proposals, and lab reports; conducting research; evaluating Internet sources; APA guidelines; avoiding plagiarism; studying for tests and exams; delivering oral presentations; and more. Maintaining the same clear, straightforward style of the other books in the series, this comprehensive guide is an invaluable resource for students throughout their academic careers and beyond.FEATURESA clear and concise approach. With over twenty-five years of proven success, the Making Sense series is known for its clear and concise approach to research and writing in all areas of undergraduate study.Student-friendly language. The accessible writing style allows readers to use this book as either a quick and casual reference or as a text that can easily be read from cover to cover.Practical advice. Through a rich variety of examples, the book helps students overcome common pitfalls in grammar, style, punctuation, and usage.Rich visual content. A fresh, modern layout, with visuals tailored to topics in psychology, actively engages students in the material.Engaging learning and review tools. In order to help students grasp the material, the book incorporates helpful pedagogical features including chapter outlines and overviews; Internet icons; writing checklists and a list of common proofreading symbols and abbreviations; an end-of-text glossary; and practical appendices providing a "catchlist" of misused words and phrases, suggestions and strategies for writing examinations, and tips on how to write a proper résumé or letter of application.Current information. Up-to-date, in-depth information--including the latest guidelines for APA style documentation and referencing--ensures that students are well-equipped with the knowledge they will need to communicate successfully.A strong emphasis on the research and writing process. In-depth coverage on how to prepare scientific writing, along with three sample documents--a research paper, a lab report, and a research proposal--provides students with a thorough guide to researching and writing in the field.Coverage of important ethical issues. In order to stress the importance of maintaining academic integrity, the book places the issue of scholarly ethics into a broader context through various historical and contemporary examples.A stand-alone chapter on presentations and seminars. The book argues that all students--even those who struggle with public speaking--can give a good presentation by following a few simple rules, the two most important of these being good preparation and good organization. This chapter also covers PowerPoint and poster presentations.

Making Sense Psychology 2ed

Designed specifically for students of the social sciences, Making Sense in the Social Sciences, 2nd edition, is an accessible and useful research guide that outlines the general principles of style, grammar, and usage, as well as discusses research design, theory, measurement, and argument. It also has chapters on how to write an essay and exam, and documentation. In addition, the new edition has more material on how to properly research and document Internet resources, an update on computer programs, an extended discussion on quantitative and qualitative research, up-to-date references and examples, and new material on ethics.

Making Sense: A Student's Guide to Research and Writing

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