Chapter 23: Writing for Business

CHAPTER 23
Writing for Business

CONNECT: How can you best represent yourself on a professional networking site? 2a, 23b

CREATE: Draft a profile that shows off your skills, experience, and education for a prospective employer.

REFLECT: Reflect on your draft, analyzing how clear it is, how well it represents you, and how effectively it follows conventions for the genre.

IN TODAY’S BUSINESS WORLD, the global economy is now a commonplace concept, and both corporate giants and home-office eBay operations conduct business worldwide. Yet in the midst of these changes, one constant remains: written communication is still essential in identifying and solving the complex problems of today’s companies.