Re: Looking for a good textbook for applied professional and business writing

[Scott Turner <quills -at- airmail -dot- net>]

For the general writing audience I would recommend one of the books by Paula LaRocque. http://www.paulalarocque.com/About_Paula_LaRocque.aspx

On Jun 3, 2011, at 9:56, "Andrus, Sonja (andrussa)" <andrussa -at- UCMAIL -dot- UC -dot- EDU> wrote:

> Hi, all.
> 
> I'm new to the list, so please forgive me if this has recently been covered.  
> 
> We have a new course coming up that we need a textbook or reference book for.  It's called "Applied Workplace Writing" and will have students who are primarily working in a writing-intensive position (there will be some who are in the course and program to move up into more writing-intensive positions).  The goal of the course is to use their own projects from work as the material projects of the course, so we'll have journalists, professionals, entry-level staffers in a variety of businesses, and technical writers.
> 
> While I'd like to use one book for all, I don't want students paying a fortune for something they use only a tiny portion of.  I've been digging through book catalogs and through stacks of short guides that I have used in the past for introductory courses, but I'm not finding anything that seems appropriate.  Does anyone have some suggestions?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> Sonja
> 
> Sonja Andrus, PhD
> Assistant Professor of English
> andrussa -at- ucmail -dot- uc -dot- edu
> 
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