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Title: Write-up designed for accounting firms whose clients need answers.
Author: Richard S. Buse
Publication: The National Public Accountant (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 4 Issue: 4 Page: 25(7)

Distributed by Thomson Gale

Did you ever want to write your own book? Now is your chance. Patricia Reilly Giff, author of the Kids Of The Polk Street School books, tells you just what to do. She shows you the steps she uses to write great stories like "The Beast in Ms. Rooney's Room" and then gives you a tum. To get started all you need are paper, sharp pencil, a comfortable patch of floor, and your best ideas. So why not join Richard "Beast" Best, Emily Arrow, and all the characters in Patricia Reilly Giff's books and write up a storm

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"Anyone who wants to succeed in the workplace needs to present ideas clearly, persuasively . . . and in writing. But until now, business-writing books have emphasized rules and mechanics, which often stifle the writing process. Write Up the Corporate Ladder introduces a new, simplified approach to writing based on the way professional writers write, emphasizing the importance of ""writer's intuition"" and ""message over mechanics"" to enable readers to write both faster and smarter on the job. This helpful book spells out the difference between good, bad, and mediocre writing, provides step-by-step instructions for bringing out your own best ideas, and features personal interviews with Fortune 500 executives and best-selling business authors like Ken Blanchard, Michael Lewis, Suze Orman, and others. Valuable tools include: * Tips on how to break the rules that undermine effective business writing * A special chapter on writing content-rich one-page memos and concise e-mails * A custom Action Plan for determining skill level and tracking improvement * A comprehensive list of online writing resources"

Most books on business writing focus on stale rules and mechanics, without emphasizing the inspiration and energy needed to produce truly effective writing. Write Up the Corporate Ladder features comprehensive interviews with well-known professional business writers, showing how the techniques they use can result in clear, persuasive writing in the workplace.

Step Write Up provides hands-on exercises for teachers in the classroom and for any workshop leader teaching collaboration and writing skills. This book is the result of creative and collaborative personal and professional endeavors from the two past decades. As a duo of left-brain and right-brain individuals who studied Mechanical Engineering and liberal arts and Sixteenth-Century British Literature, we have always managed to cross the wires in our heads and take a Renaissance approach to life and work. We've held jobs in submarine construction and as engineering managers for Fortune 500 companies. We've been teachers at the high school and college levels. We've conducted workshops for all age groups on topics of communication, writing, and collaboration. We've collaborated and published twenty-seven works of fiction and one of nonfiction. And we've raised two sons. So, what have we learned over the years that is worth sharing with you? We have included exercises on communication and collaboration in this volume that we've used in our classrooms and workshops. You will find lessons on writing poetry and creative nonfiction and fiction. At the end of this volume, there are a number of articles that we've penned over the years on the topics of writing, publishing, and collaboration. Aside from their usefulness, these are also listed here for your entertainment, as well. We hope you can put this collection to good use. Jan Coffey

Welcome to alternative dating . . . the tenth circle of hell

DATING RULE #1
Keep an open mind . . . and your phone number handy.

It started simply enough. The editor of Tess Magazine demanded an assignment about dating practices for the urban set. Something fun. Something sexy. Something that the three women working on the article -- Julia, Samantha and Abby -- could research and really get into.

DATING RULE #2
Engage your reader. If he's hot, buy him a drink.

Suddenly Julia seems smitten with a stranger she met during a speed-dating session. Samantha's research into coffeehouse dating is less engaging than the naughty e-mails she's been getting from her "pen pal" in Italy. And Abby is too busy dealing with her new "roommate" -- an Irish photographer who looks like sex in pants -- to get much work done.

So how do you write about relationships when your own love life looks like something caught in the garbage disposal?