Professional Writing

This book provides an analytical introduction to professional writing for different media.

Professional Writing offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary introduction to professional writing for different media, synthesizing methods and ideas developed in linguistics, journalism, public relations and marketing. It provides students with the ability to understand, construct and manipulate written information in a way that is directly transferable to a wide variety of professional situations. Thoroughly revised and updated throughout, the second edition contains a new chapter on teamwork, a section on plagiarism and additional content on digital writing to better reflect the impact this has had on professional writing.

SKY MARSEN is Senior Lecturer in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is author of Communication Studies and Narrative Dimensions of Philosophy (both Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

Introduction * Setting the Stage for Writing * Analysing, Researching and Evaluating * Style and Effect * Business and Technical Journalism * Digital Writing * Reports and Proposals * Objective Reasoning * Business Document Formats * Teamwork and Project Management * Job Applications * Writers’ Reference * Index *