A concise guide to the correct use of grammar and style for business users. By avoiding complex grammatical theory and the inclusion of examples of correct usage, this is an easy to use reference guide.

國人與國際人士的交流及合作日益頻繁，兩岸國際化的程度不斷提高，加上E-mail已經成為極重要的溝通工具，因此大家以英文寫作來溝通的場合日漸增多，本書就是有鑑於這些趨勢而作。 作者長期旅美，深入美國社會。各單元皆以實例說明，清晰明瞭，親切實用。本書共分為三大篇： 一、書面溝通基礎：教你從書信格式與溝通心理開始下手，從有創意的開場和結尾讓人印象深刻，再學習如何運用文字溝通的藝術、用字遣詞的技巧，達到萬無一失的溝通態度。 二、公務書信體例：銷售信原來也可以充滿藝術，深得人心的回信手法，讓你迅速掌握商機；窒礙難行的催收帳款心理學，讓你一信搞定。報告與通告如何寫？教你如何精準傳達合邏輯。 三、謀識寫作體例：最實用的謀職履歷，職涯履歷要件、難以下筆的自傳與求職函件──求職與應徵函、推薦函、謝函與接受婉謝函；提升寫信專業度，贏在職場起跑點。

"For learners, managers, mentors, and feedback givers."

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design, BMSD 2020, which took place in Berlin, Germany, in July 2020. BMSD is a leading international forum that brings together researchers and practitioners interested in business modeling and its relation to software design. Particular areas of interest are: Business Processes and Enterprise Engineering; Business Models and Requirements; Business Models and Services; Business Models and Software; Information Systems Architectures and Paradigms; Data Aspects in Business Modeling and Software Development; Blockchain-Based Business Models and Information Systems; IoT and Implications for Enterprise Information Systems. The theme of BMSD 2020 was: Towards Knowledge-Driven Enterprise Information Systems.

Providing an engaging, accessible and practically-focused introduction to cognitive grammar, this book demonstrates how central cognitive grammar principles can be used in stylistic analyses. Assuming no prior knowledge, it leads students through the basics of cognitive grammar, outlining its place within the field of cognitive linguistics as a whole, providing clear explanations of key principles and concepts, and explaining how these can be used to support the study of a range of literary and non-literary texts. Thoroughly updated throughout to encompass emerging trends in the field, this second edition features: - Increased exploration of a range of topics, including specificity and definiteness, scanning, perfective and imperfective verbs, action chains, and subjective and objective construal - A brand new chapter on extended projects in cognitive grammar - Additional activities, including on a wider range of literary texts - Further solutions to modelled answers - Updated examples, references, and further reading recommendations Presenting cognitive grammar as a powerful alternative to more traditional grammatical models to enable the analysis of texts, the book's primary focus is on the practical application of cognitive grammar to examples of language in context and on its potential for specifically literary and non-literary material. It offers a clear and facilitating approach to allow students to describe language features carefully and to explore how these descriptions can be developed into full and rich analyses.

The most original and authoritative voice of today's English lexicography presents a fully revised new edition of his beloved usage dictionary When Bryan Garner published the first edition of A Dictionary of Modern American Usage in 1999, the book quickly became one of the most influential style guides ever written for the English language. After four previous editions and over twenty years, our language has evolved in many ways, and the powerful tool of big data has revolutionized lexicography. This extensively revised new edition fully captures these changes, featuring a thousand new entries and over two hundred replacement entries, thoroughly updated usage data and ratios on word frequency based on the Google Ngram Viewer, a more balanced coverage of World Englishes, not just American and British, and the inclusion of gender-neutral language. However, one thing has not changed: in no sense is this a regular dictionary but a masterpiece of lexicography written with wit and personality by one of the preeminent authorities on the English language. To put it in David Foster Wallace's words, Garner's discussion of rhetoric and style still borders on genius. From the (lost) battle between self-deprecating and self-depreciating to the misuse of it's for its, from the variant spelling patty-cake taking over pat-a-cake in American English to the singular uses of they, Garner explains the nuances of grammar and vocabulary and the linguistic blunders to which modern writers and speakers are prone, whether in word choice, syntax, phrasing, punctuation, or pronunciation. His empirical approach liberates English from two extremes: from the purists who maintain that split infinitives and sentence-ending prepositions are malfeasances and from the linguistic relativists who believe that whatever people say or write must necessarily be accepted. The purpose of Garner's dictionary is to help writers, editors, and speakers use the language effectively. And it does so in a playful and persuasive way that will help you sound grammatical but relaxed, refined but natural, correct but unpedantic.

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