The Writer’s Handbook – A Guide for Social Workers

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The Writer’s Handbook: A Guide for Social Workers
by Dona J. Young

The Writer’s Handbook: A Guide for Social Workers is a writing reference for social work majors and graduate students. Specific to social work, the text contains chapters on documenting in the field, research, APA style citation, and formatting.

In addition, learners have access to full chapters on principles of grammar (verbs, pronouns, and parallel structure), punctuation (commas, semicolons, colons, quotation marks), and writing style (active voice, pronoun viewpoint, and conciseness).

The Writer’s Handbook can be used as the primary textbook in writing classes for social work students or as a supplementary text for other classes.

Business Communication and Writing

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Business Communication and Writing: Enhancing Career Flexibility
by Dona J. Young

Effective communication is critical for career success in all professions. This text helps learners improve their communication and writing skills by breaking down the process and simplifying each step. Learners improve their skills as well as their ability to solve problems and make decisions. By breaking content into cohesive chunks, this text is ideal for online learning. Online learning activities are included at the end of each chapter.

 

The Writer’s Handbook

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The Writer’s Handbook: Grammar for Writing
by Dona J. Young

The Writer’s Handbook is a roadmap to correct and effective writing. This unique guide simplifies essential principles and orders them so that one concept builds on the next. By focusing on the sentence core, this book untangles grammar so that even complex concepts are easy to learn: your writing style will improve right along with your skills.

 

 

A Guide for Business Writing

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A Guide for Business Writing: Write to Learn–Edit to Clarify
by Dona J. Young

A Guide for Business Writing covers principles of grammar, punctuation, and style resulting in writing that is correct, clear, and concise. The book builds a foundation of core concepts so that complex concepts become easy to apply. Trust the process and transform your writing by focusing on the simple, not the complex.

 

 

Eleven Steps to Instantly Improve Your Writing

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Eleven Steps to Instantly Improve Your Writing: Tips from an Incurable Editor
by Dona J. Young

When you edit, do you sometimes feel like a “broken record,” going over the same sentence time and again before finally basing your decision on a guess? Now is the time to stop the uncertainty-it is costing you too much time, effort, and credibility.

This book takes the mystery out of how to produce good writing by giving you 11 proven steps to improve your writing instantly. Each chapter walks you step by step from one principle to the next so that the complex becomes simple.

Eleven Steps to Instantly Improve Your Writing will save you time and frustration; Young has used this method with thousands of corporate executives in workshops across the U.S.

 

The Mechanics of Writing

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The Mechanics of Writing
by Dona J. Young

The Mechanics of Writing was written for a specific purpose: to help writers at all levels—students and professionals alike—improve the quality of their writing.