English for careers : business, professional, and technical

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Leila R. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson/Prentice Hall , c2006
Edition:9th ed
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Word power
  • 2. Weather or knot: choose the right words
  • 3. Ain't is in the dictionary
  • 4. Grammar for grownups
  • 5. Apples, tigers, and Swahili
  • 6. Be kind to substitutes
  • 7. Looking for the action?
  • 8. Words that describe
  • 9.The taming of the apostrophe
  • 10. Secret life of a sentence revealed
  • 11.The pauses that refresh
  • 12. Punctuation potpourri
  • 13. Get your act together
  • 14.Take your show on the road