Basic Skills
 




Glencoe Writing for the Workplace
© 1999


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  • Product Description
    This text helps students build on basic writing skills with assignments that support their real-world employment goals. A full complement of support features empowers students for independent work with positive results.

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    Features:
    • Instructional format encourages home study and collaboration/family support.
    • Introductory chapter vignettes demonstrate the writing process and desired results.
    • Writing prompts make assignments easier for beginners.
    • Lessons incorporate new words; rules for punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and abbreviation; and opportunities for extra credit.


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    Table of Contents:
    • Chapter 1: Requesting Employment Information
    • Chapter 2: Requesting a Letter of Recommendation
    • Chapter 3: Requesting Job Interviews
    • Chapter 4: Writing Thank You Letters
    • Chapter 5: Writing Sympathy Letters
    • Chapter 6: Correcting Billing Errors
    • Chapter 7: Requesting Changes in Conditions at Work (A Pre-essay Composition)
    • Chapter 8: Responding to Formal Letters
    • Chapter 9: Writing Personal, Persuasive Letters (A Personal Essay)
    • Chapter 10: Writing Formal Letters to a Former School, Business, or Agency
    • Chapter 11: Proposing an Improvement (A Formal Essay)


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    Ancillaries:
    Instructor's Guide
    ISBN: 0-02-804182-8
    The Instructor's Guide provides teaching suggestions, application activities, an answer key, and guidelines for meeting the needs and learning styles of ABE/GED students. It also includes correlations to TABE (CTB/McGraw-Hill), SCANS, and CASAS competencies.

     


     
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