Business Writing Is Murder but It Isn't a Mystery

Description

175 pages
$15.95
ISBN 0-921472-49-8
DDC 808'.06665

Publisher

Year

1998

Contributor

Reviewed by Sidney Allinson

Sidney Allinson is a Victoria-based communications consultant, Canadian
news correspondent for Britain’s The Army Quarterly and Defence, and
author of The Bantams: The Untold Story of World War I.

Review

Figuring out just what the authors intended is the biggest mystery
confronting readers of this book. They present useful and down-to-earth
guidelines on the difficult craft of business writing. Unfortunately,
and for reasons known only to them, they sandwich these guidelines
between chapters of a “murder mystery” about which the less said the
better. Suffice it to say that some quite worthwhile advice about
writing effective business reports and the like is lost when presented
in the context of this totally incongruous private-eye tale. Recommended
only for readers who are willing to hunt for the needle in the
proverbial haystack.

Citation

Morden, Pat, and Max Morden., “Business Writing Is Murder but It Isn't a Mystery,” Canadian Book Review Annual Online, accessed October 12, 2024, https://cbra.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/2435.