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Author Ken Kirk
This Infoline will tackle the readability issue more appropriately by discussing guidelines for mastering clear and concise sentences in your workplace writing. The goal is to practice composing a sentence that requires only one reading to decipher the intended mess....
Release Date 2010/07 -
Author Janet Mizrahi
Employers consider communication as one of the most critical skills for workers today. Writing for the Workplace: Business Communication for Professionals is an easy-to-follow guide that provides strategies for effective professional communication. Written to addre....
Release Date 2015/12 -
Writing for Journalists, 3rd Edition
Author Jane Bentley , Tim Holmes , Harriett Gilbert , Adams Sally , Wynford Hicks
The new edition of Writing for Journalists focuses on the key issue for writers working across all forms of media today: how to produce clear, engaging and illuminating copy that will keep the reader hooked from start to finish.Written by skilled specialist contrib....
Release Date 2016/04 -
Author Linda Newman Lior
Writing for Interaction focuses on the art of creating the information experience as it appears within software and web applications, specifically in the form of user interface text. It also provides strategies for ensuring a consistent, positive information experie....
Release Date 2013/02 -
Author Scott Kubie
From product documentation to menu labels to marketing emails, writing for the web can feel challenging—even insurmountable. But it doesn’t have to be that way! Whether you’re new to writing or looking to hone your skills, Scott Kubie’s guide will empower you to ge....
Release Date 2018/10 -
Writing for Business: Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges
Author Harvard Business School Press
Effective business writing rests on a foundation of basic principles. Master them, and you'll know how to handle the many different writing tasks that come your way. This book contains relevant information on how to: 1) Organize your document according to your read....
Release Date 2007/05 -
Writing for Animation, Comics, and Games
Author Christy Marx
Writing for Animation, Comics, and Games explains the practical aspects of creating scripts for animation, comics, graphic novels, and computer games. It details how you can create scripts that are in the right industry format, and follow the expected rules for you....
Release Date 2012/11 -
Writing Feature Articles, 4th Edition
Author Brendan Hennessy
Hennessy's classic text tells you everything you need to know about writing successful features. You will learn how to formulate and develop ideas and how to shape them to fit different markets. Now in its fourth edition, Writing Feature Articles has been ful....
Release Date 2013/05 -
Writing Effective Business Rules
Author Graham Witt
Writing Effective Business Rules moves beyond the fundamental dilemma of system design: defining business rules either in natural language, intelligible but often ambiguous, or program code (or rule engine instructions), unambiguous but unintelligible to stakeholder....
Release Date 2012/03 -
Writing E-mails That Have a Clear Purpose
Author Claire Meirowitz , Natalie Canavor
Thie Element is an excerpt from The Truth About the New Rules of Business Writing (ISBN: 9780137153152) by Natalie Canavor and Claire Meirowitz. Available in print and digital formats.Make sure every email has a purpose--and your message is instantly clear to everyo....
Release Date 2010/02 -
Writing Covered Calls: Earn Investment Income Using ETFs and Stock Options
Author Marvin Appel
Use covered calls to safeguard your returns while reducing your risk!There is no foolproof recipe for investment success, but there are strategies that can decrease the risk you might expect, without compromising potential returns. One such strategy is covered call ....
Release Date 2011/02 -
Author Hadley Wickham
R packages are a great way to share and create code that you and others can use over and over again.Why is it important?Developing R code for inclusion in a package is different than simply writing R scripts.What you'll learn—and how you can apply itLearn best pra....
Release Date 2016/08 -
Writing Clear and Simple HR Messages
Author Alison Davis , Jane Shannon
This Element is an excerpt from The Definitive Guide to HR Communication: Engaging Employees in Benefits, Pay, and Performance (9780137061433) by Alison Davis and Jane Shannon. Available in print and digital formats. Five simple steps for great HR writing that empl....
Release Date 2011/03 -
Writing Business Bids and Proposals For Dummies
Author Charlie Divine , Neil Cobb
Develop a winning business proposalPlan and use a repeatable proposal process Use tools and templates to accelerate your proposals Get the intel on bids and proposals Congratulations! You have in your hands the collected knowledge and skills of the professional pro....
Release Date 2016/08 -
Author Martha Alderson
Plotting a story filled with memorable, engaging scenes from beginning to end can feel like an insurmountable challenge. Having the right plan - and the tools to execute it - can make all the difference. Writing Blockbuster Plots pulls back the curtain on story str....
Release Date 2016/03 -
Writing Better Lyrics, 2nd Edition
Author Pat Pattison
The Must-Have Guide for SongwritersWriting Better Lyrics has been a staple for songwriters for nearly two decades. Now this revised and updated 2nd Edition provides effective tools for everything from generating ideas, to understanding the form and function of a son....
Release Date 2009/12 -
Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C
Author Lincoln Stein , Doug MacEachern
Apache is the most popular web server on the Internet because it is free, reliable, and extensible. The availability of the source code and the modular design of Apache makes it possible to extend web server functionality through the Apache API. For the most part, ....
Release Date 1999/04 -
Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel Revised and Expanded Edition, 2nd Edition
Author Sara Paretsky , Hallie Ephron
A Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award Finalist for Best Critical/Biographical Work Discover the secrets to crafting an unforgettable mystery! To piece together the puzzle of your mystery novel, you need patience, resilience, a solid understanding of the craft, an....
Release Date 2017/01 -
Writing and Research for Graphic Designers
Author Steven Heller
For designers, writing and research skills are more necessary than ever before, from the basic business compositions to critical writing. In this competitive climate, designers are routinely called upon to make words about the images and designs they create for clie....
Release Date 2013/01 -
Writing and Querying MapReduce Views in CouchDB
Author Bradley Holt
Learn how to create MapReduce views in CouchDB that let you query the document-oriented database for meaningful data. With this short and concise ebook, you'll get step-by-step instructions and lots of sample code to create and explore several MapReduce views, usin....
Release Date 2011/03 -
Writing a Business Report That Gets Read, Not Filed
Author Claire Meirowitz , Natalie Canavor
This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About the New Rules of Business Writing (9780137153152) by Natalie Canavor and Claire Meirowitz. Available in print and digital formats.How to write reports that people actually read—and then act upon!Feel buried by requests....
Release Date 2010/03 -
Author Azat Mardan
Learn how to make an impact in the web world. This short book shows you that the best way to become an expert and a thought leader is to thoroughly research a topic and then publish a book on it. The great thing about writing a book is that you don’t have to risk a....
Release Date 2018/12 -
Write Your Way into Animation and Games
Author Christy Marx
Launch your career in writing for video games or animation with the best tips, tricks, and tutorials from the Focal press catalog--all at your fingertips. Let our award-winning writers and game developers show you how to generate ideas and create compelling storylin....
Release Date 2012/11 -
Write Web Apps with Dart: Develop and Design
Author Jack Murphy
DART, THE OPEN-SOURCE web programming language developed by Google, is designed for building everything from simple console utilities to full-featured applications for browsers and mobile devices. The Dart language is both familiar for seasoned engineers and easy to....
Release Date 2015/12 -
Author Martie Cook
Learn to craft smart, original stories and scripts for a variety of television formats and genres, including comedy, drama, pilots, animation, made-for-TV movies, late night, and reality television. Hear directly from studio and network executives, agents, and manag....
Release Date 2014/04 -
Author Salvatore J. Iacone
Practical, proven techniques to make writing for business more effective and less stressful.Thanks to e-mail, voice mail, cell phones, pagers, and, of course, the ever-expanding Web, we live in an age of information overload. Although all of these wonders were desig....
Release Date 2003/02 -
Author Marilyn Beker
Write to Shoot teaches budding screenwriters and screenwriting filmmakers how to write a short script with production in mind. Beker instructs them how to showcase their strengths, tailor projects to shoestring budgets, resources, and practical production parameters witho....
Release Date 2017/03 -
Write Modern Web Apps with the MEAN Stack: Mongo, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js
Author Jeff Dickey
Traditionally, web applications have been architected so that the back-end houses all the front-end code. This has resulted in heavy projects that are difficult to manage and scale. This book will explain a new way to write web applications by treating the front-end....
Release Date 2014/09 -
Author Randall Hyde
The field of software engineering may value team productivity over individual growth, but legendary computer scientist Randall Hyde wants to make promising programmers into masters of their craft. To that end, Engineering Software—the latest volume in Hyde’s highly regard....
Release Date 2020/08 -
Write Great Code, Volume 2, 2nd Edition
Author Randall Hyde
Today’s programming languages offer productivity and portability, but also make it easy to write sloppy code that isn’t optimized for a compiler. Thinking Low-Level, Writing High-Level will teach you to craft source code that results in good machine code once it’s run thr....
Release Date 2020/08