Write to Influence!: Personnel Appraisals, Resumes, Awards, Grants, Scholarships, Internships, Reports, Bid Proposals, Web Pages, Marketing, Paperback

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Contributor(s):Author: Carla D. Bass Write to Influence Personnel Appraisals, Resumes, Awards, Grants, Scholarships, Internships, Reports, Bid Proposals, Web Pages, Marketing, and More Powerful writing can change your life You may be the best candidate for a competitive opportunity--hands down--but if the competition is better at telling a story, you lose. Powerful writing correlates directly to success, personal and professional. Opportunity knocking? Choose Write to Influence when powerful writing is paramount to your goals. With this book you will: - Write to win--Make every word count and every second of the reader's time play to your advantage - Achieve your goals through persuasive communication in legal and many other applications - Write a resume that stands out ... for the right reasons. Uncomfortable with self-promotion? No problem--twelve tips make job hunting less daunting - Compose performance reviews--clear, powerful, compelling--for military and civilian writing - Persuade the reader--Tips on strategic thinking will help you assemble hard-hitting facts to make your case - Refine your presentation skills. Write and deliver a corporate speech? Learn to give a spot-on power point briefing - Maximize your internet promotion--leverage powerful words to do just that - Craft professional email--polished, succinct, and effective communication - Make the grade (pun intended) with academic essays for high school thru graduate school degrees, e. g., an MBA - Improve business writing skills--Avoid the ten most common errors with this correspondence how-to guide Attention employers Write to Influence is perfect for your employees Have you read a paragraph in a report again and again ... unable to understand it? Bureaucratic, textual muck is time consuming, frustrating, counterproductive, and the bane of today's business products. Accurate, clear, and concise writing is the lifeblood for effective operations ... in private business, corporations, NGOs, government agen