The Manager's Pocket Guide to Effective Writing

INTRODUCTION

OVERVIEW

A Manager’s Pocket Guide to Effective Writing is a how-to-write book. Intended for managers, the Guide works well as a self-directed learning text, but it can also be used as the basis for business in-service training. The book’s primary purpose is to teach the writing process using a step-by-step method that takes the mystery out of writing.

The book divides the writing process into ten steps, from the development of the idea (exploring) to the final edit (ending). Each step builds on the previous one, and each chapter ends with a Writing Workshop. The Workshop consists of writing objectives and writing exercises, developing one specific memorandum report from chapter to chapter to illustrate the workshop steps of the writing ...