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Business English fot the
21st Century
Patricia Taylor Ellison
Robert E. Barry
Summary
For college and business
school courses in Business English and Composition.
This comprehensive grammar
book helps students develop a clear, concise writing style and serves as a reference for
grammar and usage.
Features
NEW New exercises
Features sentences from current writings about business topics such as team
building, electronic job posting, personal computer upgrades, and business travel.
Provides students with
practical applications of grammar rules as well as insight into real world business
communications.
NEW Watching the Web
segments A collection of usage and spelling errors found on the web over the past
year.
Gives students a "change of
pace" from traditional textbook exercises by engaging them in an amusing and instructive
scavenger hunt for real-life mistakes.
NEW Restructured chapters
on sentence building One chapter now focuses on bad habits to avoid; one chapter now
focuses on good habits to adopt.
Teaches students proper
approaches so they become a part of everyday usage. Ex. Chapters 25 and 26
NEW Multimedia Study Guide
on Companion Web Site and on CD-ROM.
Provides students and instructors
with a complete Distance Learning Package.
NEW Complete revision of
Transparency Masters in AIE Two transparency masters for each chapter: one exercise
and one summary.
Coordinates support materials
consistently with every chapter.
NEW Updated Test Item File
available as new Prentice Hall Test Manager for WINDOWS.
Reduces instructors' test
preparation time.
NEW Distance Learning
Package All chapter features are linked to the web site and include new and original
Editing Passage Exercises, Questions for Discussion on Message Board, and Internet links.
Gives instructors a
"ready-to-use" distance learning package.
Simple explanations of
often frustrating language problems.
Helps students learn
effectively.
Use of short chapters to
give concepts in do-able doses-Separate, thorough chapters on each discrete area of
grammar and usage, from punctuation to word choice to sentence building.
Aids student retention and
builds on previously learned skills.
Review Chart for students
to complete for each review chapter.
Provides self-assessment so
students can judge their own progress. Ex. Chapters 8, 16, 24, 32, and 40
Word Tip from the Real
World Vignettes from business people who tell the truth about language expectations
for graduates.
Demonstrates to students the
importance of good written communication skills in the business world.
Table of contests
1. Business Language and Dictionaries.
2. A Few Spelling Rules.
3. A Preview of the Parts of Speech.
4. Sentence Analysis.
5. Capitalization.
6. Plural Forms of Nouns.
7. The Use of Possessive Nouns.
8. Comment and Review.
9. Personal Pronouns.
10. Agreement of Antecedents and Pronouns.
11. Miscellaneous Pronouns at Work.
12. Verbs: Agreement and Mood.
13. Verbs in Sentences.
14. Tenses of Verbs.
15. Regular and Irregular Verbs.
16. Review of Pronouns and Verbs.
17. Verbals.
18. Modifiers of Nouns and Pronouns.
19. Special Uses of Adjectives.
20. Adverbs in Use.
21. Prepositions.
22. Connectives in Coordinate Constructions.
23. Connectives in Complex Sentences.
24. Review.
25. Building Sentences: What to Work Toward.
26. Building Sentences: What to Avoid.
27. The Writing of Numbers.
28. Uses of the Comma.
29. Uses of the Comma (continued).
30. Uses of the Comma (concluded).
31. Uses of Semicolons and Colons.
32. Review.
33. Uses of Dashes, Parentheses, and Brackets.
34. Uses of Quotation Marks, Ellipses, and Apostrophes.
35. Uses of Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points.
36. The Division of Words.
37. General Vocabulary Study for Business Use.
38. Some Terms Commonly Used in Business.
39. Executives' Choice.
40. General Review.
Posttest.
Key Items.
Glossary.
Index.
460 pages