Professional Writing Skills: Five Simple Steps to Write Anything to Anyone

This workbook covers techniques to write any kind of business document to present your readers with information or persuade them to take action.

You’ll learn a five-step process to plan your message, review techniques to keep your writing clear and concise, and apply what you learn to the email you write for work.

This workbook shows you how to save writing time and get results with each document that you send out for your job.

The book also shows you how to use your written communication skills as an extension of these and other core professional abilities:

• Leadership skills
• Teamwork
• Quantitative and qualitative analysis
• Problem solving
• Project management

About the Author

Natasha Terk is the author of Reports, Proposals, and Procedures; Professional Writing Skills; Land the Job: Writing Effective Resumes and Cover Letters; Effective Email: Concise, Clear Writing to Advance Your Business Needs; and Writing Performance Reviews. As the managing director of Write It Well, she leads the firm’s business operations and strategy.

Natasha holds master’s degrees from the University of San Francisco and the University of Manchester, UK. She has served as a program officer at the Packard Foundation and as a management consultant with La Piana Consulting, and she serves on the board of the Ronald McDonald House of San Francisco.

Natasha has taught business writing at the University of California, Berkeley, and been a consultant for Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. She leads on-site and online webinars and workshops for clients including Hewlett-Packard, Granite Construction, IKEA, National Semiconductor, and the Port of Oakland. She gives keynote speeches and presentations on business communications at seminars and large conferences.