In: Workplace Skills, Social Skills

Business Writing

Helpful pointers for writing effective email messages, reports, proposals and presentations.

Summaries

7 Book

Writing to Persuade
How to Bring People Over to Your Side
Trish Hall
Liveright, 2019
8 Article

When Writing for Busy Readers, Less Is More
Todd Rogers and Jessica Lasky-Fink
Behavioral Scientist, 2023
9 Book

How Words Get Good
The Story of Making a Book
Rebecca Lee
Profile Books, 2022
8 Book

How to Take Smart Notes
One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
Sönke Ahrens
CreateSpace, 2017
10 Article

Why Academics Stink at Writing
Steven Pinker
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2014
Book

Smart Brevity
The Power of Saying More with Less
Jim VandeHei et al.
Workman Publishing, 2022
8 Podcast

Writing to Win: How to Quickly Capture Readers and Keep Them Engaged
Think Fast, Talk Smart Podcast
Matt Abrahams and Glenn Kramon
Stanford Business, 2021
Book

Making Numbers Count
The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers
Chip Heath and Karla Starr
Avid Reader Press, 2022
Book

Draft No. 4
On the Writing Process
John McPhee
FSG, 2017
8 Article

Why Does Writing Matter in Remote Work?
Tim Casasola
Tim Casasola, 2020
8 Article

Time to Capitalize Black and White
Black and white are both historically created racial identities – and whatever rule applies to one should apply to the other.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
The Atlantic, 2020
8 Podcast

Everyone Misplaces My Keys
Amia Srinivasan and Thomas Jones
London Review of Books, 2020