Business Correspondence: A Guide to Everyday Writing (2nd Edition) [Paperback]

Lin Lougheed (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0130897922 | ISBN-13: 978-0130897923 | Publication Date: August 16, 2002 | Edition: 2nd

Business Correspondence, Second Edition introduces adult ESL students to the proper formats and approaches to use in basic office communication. It offers students extensive contextualized practice, while extra grammar and punctuation exercises boost students¿ basic English skills. Because each chapter centers around an office situation, students are exposed to ¿real¿ language in ¿real¿ situations.

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Business Correspondence, Second Edition introduces adult ESL students to the proper formats and approaches to use in basic office communication. It offers students extensive contextualized practice, while extra grammar and punctuation exercises boost students' basic English skills. Because each chapter centers around an office situation, students are exposed to real language in real situations.
Key features:

• Extensive guided practice in understanding and preparing business correspondence.
• Numerous models of appropriate business correspondence, all based on authentic documents.
• That's Good Business! boxes provide practical tips about business practice and etiquette.
• Provides practice with correspondence in employee relations, customer relations, and personal business letters.
• Activities on business style, grammar and usage, and mechanics.
• Enhanced reference section, with practical tips about business practices, can be removed and carried as a minibook.
• A complete answer key for self-study.

Product Details

• Paperback: 149 pages
• Publisher: Pearson ESL; 2nd edition (August 16, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130897922
• ISBN-13: 978-0130897923
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #299,342 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lin LOUGHEED started his EFL career in 1968 as a Peace Corps volunteer in Turkey. He earned his doctorate at Teachers College, Columbia University and has received two Fulbright awards: a scholar grant in Sri Lanka and a professor grant in Tunisia. In 1983, he founded Instructional Design International, Inc. to develop English teaching materials in all media. Lin is a past member of the TESOL Executive Board and has served as the chair of two special interest groups: Teaching English Internationally and Materials Writers. He has written over 40 English-as-a-foreign-language texts and has a daily radio show in China on business English.