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The AMA Style Guide for Business Writing PDF

660 Pages·1996·1.6 MB·English
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title: The AMA Style Guide for Business Writing author: publisher: AMACOM Books isbn10 | asin: 0814402976 print isbn13: 9780814402979 ebook isbn13: 9780585026671 language: English Commercial correspondence--Handbooks, manuals, etc, Business writing--Handbooks, subject manuals, etc, English language--Business English--Handbooks, manuals, etc. publication date: 1996 lcc: HF5726.A49 1996eb ddc: 808/.06665 Commercial correspondence--Handbooks, manuals, etc, Business writing--Handbooks, subject: manuals, etc, English language--Business English--Handbooks, manuals, etc. The AMA Style Guide for Business Writing From the Editors at the American Management Association AMACOM American Management Association New York · Boston · Chicago · Kansas City · San Francisco · Washington, D.C. Brussels · Mexico City · Tokyo · Toronto Page iv This book is available at a special discount when ordered in bulk quantities. For information, contact Special Sales Department, AMACOM, a division of American Management Association, 135 West 50th Street, New York, NY 10020. This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering legal, accounting, or other professional service. If legal advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional person should be sought. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The AMA style guide for business writing. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-8144-0297-6 1. Commercial correspondence-Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Business writing-Handbooks, manuals, etc. 3. English language- Business English-Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. American Management Association. HF5726.A49 1996 808'.06665-dc20 96-4138 CIP ©1996 AMACOM, a division of American Management Association, New York. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Photos P-1 and P-2 on pages 177 and 178 © 1995 PhotoDisc, Inc. This publication may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in whole or in part, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of AMACOM, a division of American Management Association, 135 West 50th Street, New York, NY 10020. Printing number 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Page v Contents Introduction ix Abbreviations 1 Acronyms 6 Active and Passive Voice 8 Agreement 11 Alphabetizing 16 Appendixes 22 Budgets and Forecasts 23 Capitalization 26 Captions 30 Charts and Graphs 31 Citations 41 Clichés 45 Compound Words 49 Decimals, Fractions, and Percentages 51 Denotation and Connotation 56 Desktop Publishing 57 Editing and Proofreading 60 Electronic Mail 63 Emphasis 66 False Subjects 72 Financial Reports 74 Flowcharts 77 Footnotes 81 Headings 84 Highlighting in Text 87 Introductions 90 Jargon 92 Letters 95 Page vi Lists 109 Manuscripts 114 Mathematical Symbols 117 Memos 123 Numerals and Numbering 126 Organization Charts 133 Outlining 135 Paragraphs 138 Parallelism 143 Parentheses and Brackets 145 Parts of Speech 151 Adjectives 151 Adverbs 154 Conjunctions 156 Nouns 157 Prepositions 161 Pronouns 164 Verbs 169 Photographs 175 Planning Documents 179 Possessives 182 Procedures Manuals 184 Proposals 188 Punctuation 191 Apostrophe 191 Colon 193 Comma 195 Dash 200 Ellipses 201 Exclamation Mark 202 Hyphen 203 Period 205 Question Mark 208 Page vii Quotation Marks 209 Semicolon 212 Slash 213 Quotations 214 Redundancy and Repetition 217 Reports 219 Sentences 222 Sexist Writing 229 Signs and Symbols 232 Similar Words 233 Singular and Plural 267 Spacing 271 Spelling 273 Style and Tone 281 Summarizing 285 Table of Contents 287 Technical Writing 289 Titles 291 Transitions 293 Word Processing 298 Sample Forms Section 302 Budget Form 303 Budget Documentation 304 Budget Variance Summary 305 Forecast 306 Balance Sheet 307 Income Statement 308 Statement of Cash Flows 310 Letters 311 Block Style 311 Modified Block Style 312 Semiblock Style 313 Long-Range Planning Documents 315

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