Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Effective Business Communication
- Chapter 2 Understanding Your Audience
- Chapter 3 Effective Business Writing
- Chapter 4 Writing Preparation
- Chapter 5 Business Writing in Action
- Chapter 6 Writing
- Chapter 7 The Writing Process: How Do I Begin?
- Chapter 8 Writing Essays: From Start to Finish
- Chapter 9 Revising and Presenting Your Writing
- Chapter 10 APA and MLA Documentation and Formatting
- Chapter 11 Writing Basics: What Makes a Good Sentence?
- Chapter 12 Punctuation
- Chapter 13 Working with Words: Which Word is Right?
- Chapter 14 Help for English Language Learners
- Chapter 15 Writing Paragraphs:Separating Ideas and Shaping Content
- Chapter 16 Refining Your Writing: How Do I Improve My Writing Technique?
Business Communication for Success (Open Textbook Library) // CC BY-NC-SA
- Chapter 1 Effective Business Communication
- Chapter 2 Delivering Your Message
- Chapter 3 Understanding Your Audience
- Chapter 4 Effective Business Writing
- Chapter 5 Writing Preparation
- Chapter 6 Writing
- Chapter 7 Revising and Presenting Your Writing
- Chapter 8 Feedback in the Writing Process
- Chapter 9 Business Writing in Action
- Chapter 10 Developing Business Presentations
- Chapter 11 Nonverbal Delivery
- Chapter 12 Organization and Outlines
- Chapter 13 Presentations to Inform
- Chapter 14 Presentations to Persuade
- Chapter 15 Business Presentations in Action
- Chapter 16 Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Business Communication
- Chapter 17 Negative News and Crisis Communication
- Chapter 18 Intercultural and International Business Communication
- Chapter 19 Group Communication, Teamwork, and Leadership
Chapters and sections were borrowed and adapted from the above existing OER textbooks on business communication. Without these foundational texts, a lot more work would have been required to complete this project. Mahalo (thank you) to those who shared before us.
Special Thanks to
- Billy Meinke – University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, OER Technologist
- Leeward OER Committee
- Leeward Educational Media Center
Open Educational Resources
This text is provided to you as an Open Educational Resource (OER), which you access online. It is designed to give you a comprehensive introduction to business writing at no cost. It contains both written and graphic text material, intra-text links to other internal material which may aid in understanding topics and concepts, intra-text links to the appendices and glossary for tables and definitions of words, and extra-text links to videos and web material that clarifies and augments topics and concepts.