OER and ZTC by Subject (A-Z)

Open Alberta. Textbook. This SAIT edition of Business Communication for Success (BCS) provides a comprehensive, integrated approach to the study and application of written and oral business communication to serve both student and professor.

Business Writing For Everyone is an inclusive guide to writing in the workplace. The book takes a process-oriented, storytelling approach to composition: focusing less on genre and more on the decisions that effective business communicators make. Business Writing For Everyone also contains interactive H5P activities for students to test their learning, and activities for further reflection that instructors can use in the classroom or assign as homework.

It is the goal of this book to help students do the following:
• Apply basic concepts for effective and concise business writing.
• Compile a well written report acceptable within a business context.
• Follow a writing process designed for business students.
• Demonstrate critical thinking, reasoning, and persuasion.
• Communicate in writing using a business model.
• Apply resources for improving business writing skills.

No matter what your field is, having professional communication skills are essential to success in today's workplace. This book covers key business communications topics that will help you in your career, including intercultural communication, team work, professional writing, audience analysis and adapting messages, document formatting, oral communication, and more.

This text starts with a solid foundation in written communication with several opportunities to both review the fundamentals as well as to demonstrate mastery and move on to more challenging assignments. Our students are sometimes learning English as they enter a business program and benefit from the attention to the basics. At the same time this course often articulates as a course-equivalent for English or fulfills a writing requirement for a degree program. This range provides the instructor with both challenges and opportunities that Business English for Success can address.

Business Communication for Success provides a comprehensive, integrated approach to the study and application of written and oral business communication to serve both student and professor.

This text is a compilation resource for instructors of workplace writing and oral presentations. The activities in this book can add value and energy to the classroom by engaging students in activities that support their learning. Handouts, links, activity variations, and debrief questions are included.

Technical writing courses introduce you to some of the most important aspects of writing in the worlds of science, technology, and business—in other words, the kind of writing that scientists, nurses, doctors, computer specialists, government officials, engineers, and other professionals do as a part of their regular work. The skills learned in technical writing courses can be useful in other fields as well, including education and social sciences.

designed for use in co-requisite course pairings of developmental writing and introductory technical writing, or indeed in other lower-division college writing courses that focus on building study skills alongside effective workplace and academic writing skills. It combines practical guidance with interactive exercises and thoughtfully designed writing opportunities. This book’s modular design and ample coverage of topics and genres means that it can be used flexibly, allowing instructors and students to select the chapters that are most relevant for their needs.

This book presents technical writing as an approach to researching and carrying out writing that centers on technical subject matter. Each and every chapter is devoted to helping students understand that good technical writing is situationally-aware and context-driven. Technical writing doesn’t work off knowing the one true right way of doing things—there is no magic report template out there that will always work. Instead, the focus is on offering students a series of approaches they can use to map out their situations and do research accordingly.

Covers - technical documents, writing collaboratively & using social media, research, grammar, punctuation, and conventions of English as well as ethical and legal obligations.

These OWL resources will help you conduct research and compose documents for the workplace, such as memoranda and business letters. View the Contents in the left column to link to explanations and examples of different types of workplace writing.

When thinking about what it takes to have a successful career in business, things like having good planning, people, and leadership skills probably come to mind. However, you might be surprised to hear that writing is one of the most important skills to have if you want a lasting career in business. Whether it is an internal email memo to staff, an external report to shareholders, a slide presentation for clients, or a training manual for staff, all of these things need to be clear, easy to understand, and appropriate for their audience, and all of those things can only happen through good, solid writing.

Topics include: Writing for Specific Fields; Specific Writing Assignments or Contexts; Writing Papers, and Citation, Style, and Sentence Level Concerns.

We offer both in-person and online help: stop by the Learning Commons to work with a tutor in-person. Submit a paper to the online writing cente or use the Writing Center Zoom Room to work with a tutor online.