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Better Communications founder Deborah Dumaine recently revised the best-selling Write to the Top®: Writing for Corporate Success. With the Better Communications team, she also recently published the Instant-Answer Guide to Business Writing: An A-Z Source for Today’s Business Writer. A contributor to the Business Communication edition of the Harvard Business Essentials book series, Deborah is also a business writing content provider for the Harvard ManageMentor® on-line program.

To purchase these books, visit www.amazon.com.

Write to the TopWrite to the Top:
Writing for Corporate Success
By Deborah Dumaine

Paperback: 280 Pages
Publisher: Random House (July 2004)
ISBN: 0812968980—available on www.amazon.com.

 

The Write to the Top process helps you write clear, Reader-Centered documents that drive action and get results.

Productivity—it’s vital to corporate and personal success. Yet business people spend countless hours deciphering vague and rambling written messages. The results: information overload, sluggish operations, delayed decisions, and plummeting morale.

Quality—when you receive a business document, an e-mail, letter, report, or proposal, do you immediately know what it’s about? Do you know what you’re supposed to do about it? When you send messages, do your readers act on them? They quickly will, if you use the proven Write to the Top process.

Put The Six Steps to Reader-Centered Writing® to work to help you

  • sell your ideas or services more effectively
  • write up to twice as fast—save time for your busy readers, too
  • break through writer’s block
  • target your readers’ needs
  • demonstrate your leadership in writing
  • design documents for visual impact—for easier navigation
  • improve your ability to think strategically, propose solutions, and speed up decision making.

Deborah Dumaine’s Six Steps to Reader-Centered Writing are guaranteed to blast you through writer’s block and make your business writing shine. This new edition of her indispensable classic gives you even more powerful time-saving writing tools. It’s a must-have for your business bookshelf .
— Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager


The first rule of business is ‘Communicate, communicate, communicate.’ The hard truth is, most businesspeople find it hard to write effectively. This book solves the problem! Read it. Use it. It works .
— Alan Webber, founding editor, Fast Company magazine



Instant Answer GuideInstant-Answer Guide to Business Writing:
An A-Z Source for Today's Business Writer
By Deborah Dumaine

Paperback: 512 Pages
Publisher: iUniverse.com (March 2003)
ISBN: 0595267300—available on www.amazon.com.


Fast, accurate answers to all your business writing questions will be at your fingertips when you put this handy, carry-it-anywhere reference to work for you. Packed with practical guidance and real-world examples, it helps you

  • write better business documents in half the time
  • generate e-mail that commands attention
  • create presentations and reports that achieve results
  • avoid embarrassing grammar and usage mistakes
  • use visuals to maximum effect
  • write with greater clarity and impact
  • avoid redundancy, stiff phrasing, and “bureaucratic” writing
  • make every word count
  • design winning proposals
  • handle complex technical topics with ease
  • learn the fine art of sending bad news
  • organize formal documents for impact
  • choose the best formatting techniques
  • choose from many sample documents for inspiration.

 

Harvard Business EssentialsHarvard Business Essentials: Business Communication
By Richard Luecke with Series Adviser Mary Munter
(With contributions by Deborah Dumaine)

Paperback: 161 Pages
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press (June 2003)
ISBN: 159139113X—available on www.amazon.com.

 


Business Communication, part of the Harvard Business Essentials Series, provides comprehensive, concise advice on business writing and presentations. Deborah Dumaine, founder and president of Better Communications, contributed content and implementation tools on strategic writing and writing productivity—including start-up strategies, writing a draft, editing, visual design, and e-mail. For more information, please visit www.HBSPress.org.

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