English for Careers : Business, Professional, and Technical /
Leila R. Smith.
- 7th ed.
- Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, 1999.
- xix, 408 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Includes index.
"Even though you learn the advanced technology of your chosen field, you may not get the job you want if your communication ability is inadequate. Someone who does get the job may lose it when it is discovered the employee can't spell or write a clear, correct sentence. Others may keep their jobs but stay at a dead end, unable to advance to meaningful careers because of poor or mediocre oral or written communication.[...] Each of the 145 chapters has starting pages that include a painting or people at work in a particular career; objectives, and an introduction to that chapter's topics. The starting pages enable you to find out exactly what skills and knowledge you should expect to acquire by the time you complete the chapter. Next come unique learning steps called Read, Recap, and Replay. When you Read, you get information in small portions. Then you apply what you just read by answering a few questions in a Recap. After another short "portion" or two often followed by short Recaps, you verify that you've learned by answering the Replay questions. As soon as you complete a Recap or a Replay, check your answers in Appendix F beggining on page 373." CONTENTS: Dear Student About the Author Acknowledgements 1. Tools of the Trade Parts of Speech READ, RECAP, REPLAY 1. Who or What 2. Doing, Being, and Helping 3. The Modifiers 4. The Connectors 5. Versatile Tools 6. BONUS Latest Letter Layout Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz
2. Secret Life of a Sentence Revealed READ, RECAP, REPLAY 7. Identity, Action, and Independence 8. Fragments, Anyone? 9. Capital Punishment 10. Three Important Connections 11. The Missing Key 12. BONUS Making More Connections Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz 3. Ain't Is in the Dictionary READ, RECAP, REPLAY 13. All Shapes and Sizes 14. Misspellers Anonymous 15. Cracking the Code 16. BONUS An Owner's Manual Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz 4. Apples, Tigers, and Swahili: Plural, Compound, Proper, and Biased Nouns READ, RECAP, REPLAY 17. Safety in Numbers 18. The Eccentric Nouns 19. Compounds and Propers 20. Banishing Bias from Business English 21. Vocabulary Improvement 22. BONUS Plurals Out of Uniform Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz 5. Be Kind to the Substitute Week: Pronouns READ, RECAP, REPLAY 23. Just Between You and Me 24. Me, Myself, and I 25. A Tale of a Lizard's Tale 26. A Whodunit 27. Everybody Needs Milk 28. BONUS A Gaggle of Geese Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz 6. Looking for the Action?: Then Find the Verbs READ, RECAP, REPLAY 29. Timely Tips 30. Delinquent Verbs 31. Dictionary Data 32. To Be, or Not To Be 33. Identifying the Subjects and Verbs 34. Making the Subject and Verb Agree 35. If I Were a Millionaire 36. BONUS A Swarm of Bees - Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz 7. Words That Describe: Adjectives and Adverbs READ, RECAP, REPLAY 37. Pointers for Pointers 38. Three Little Words 39. I Don't Want No Broccoli 40. Good, Gooder, Goodest?? 41. To Ly or Not to Ly, That Is the Question 42. BONUS More Shakespeare/Comparisons - Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz 8. The Taming of the Apostrophe READ, RECAP, REPLAY 43. The Ubiquitous S 44. Before or After? 45. BONUS More Apostrophes - Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz 9. The Pause That Refreshes: Commas READ, RECAP, REPLAY 46. Wine, Women, and Song 47. For Adjectives Only 48. Independents Day 49. Curtain Raisers 50. Four Easy Commas 51. A Comma Medley 52. To Comma or Not to Comma 53. BONUS Uncommon Commas - Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz 10. Punctuation Potpourri READ, RECAP, REPLAY 54. In Conclusion . ! ? 55. The Halfway Mark ; 56. An Easy Mark : 57. "Plagiarism's Enemy" 58. Half a Dash - 59. Wild Apostrophes' 60. BONUS Good Marsmanship -- - Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz 11. A Business Dictionary READ, RECAP, REPLAY 61. Account Executive Through Byte 62. Certificate of Deposit Through Exchange Rate 63. Exemption Through Local Area Network 64. Markup Through Power of Attorney 65. Promissory Note Through WYSIWIG 66. BONUS Spelling and Pronunciation - Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz 12. Weather or Knot: Homonyms, Prepositions, Pronunciation READ, RECAP, REPLAY 67. Confusing Pears 68. An Apple Has a Peel 69. Lettuce Devise a Device 70. More Look-Alikes 71. Dos' and Don'ts for Prepositions 72. BONUS Let's Talk Business - Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz 13. Sentence Power: Conciseness, Smoothness, Parallel Construction, Misplaced Modifiers, Vague Pronouns, Active/Passive Voice, Dangling Verbals READ, RECAP, REPLAY 73. Secret Review 74. Dick and Jane 75. Ladies with Concrete Heads and Parallel Parts 76. The Beeline 77. BONUS Don't Let Your Verbals Dangle in Public - Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz 14. Sincerely Yours: Business Letters READ, RECAP, REPLAY 78. Looking Good 79. Choosing the Right Parts for the Right Places 80. Arranging the Parts Attractively and Correctly 81. BONUS Sounding Good - Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz APPENDIXES A Pop Quizzes B Spelling and Vocabulary for Careers C Final Rehearsal D Mini Reference Manual Read and Replay E Grammar for the Expert F Recap and Replay Answers Index
013080231X (Student Book)
English language--Business English--Problems, exercises, etc. English language--Technical English--Problems, exercises, etc.