Volume 6- Issue 12, December 2007
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Llumina Press
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Elements of Structure: The Step Beyond
Style,
A Contemporary Guide to Technical Writing
by Liza Sisk
Published by Llumina Press
North Carolina Author and Expert Offers Valuable Tips and
Techniques
For Writing in the Workplace
Tamarac, FL – E.B. White offered timeless advice to writers
in his classic book The Elements of Style.
Now author and expert Liza Sisk provides indispensable writing tips to
the businessperson in her new book, The Elements of Structure: The Step
Beyond Style, published by Llumina Press.
In her contemporary guide, Sisk presents practical and
effective advice for successful technical writing in this very busy Internet
age.
“Time is at a premium,” writes Sisk in her book. “Readers are
eager, often impatient for information.”
The Elements of Structure
features illustrations, cartoons, charts, and a direct, easy-to-understand
style. Knowing that writing in the
workplace has to be done quickly and correctly, Sisk’s techniques can be applied
to reports, letters, e-mails, memos, proposals, articles, presentations,
textbooks, and other business documents.
Sisk offers advice for what the business writer should do—and
not do. Her tips include organizing
a report from the general to the specific; writing so that your report resembles
a news story including the who, what, where, when, and how; keeping a consistent
point of view; cutting out irrelevant words, and using a functional writing
style that is specific, plain, concrete, and active.
“Style is the author’s choice of options among words,” writes
Sisk. “A functional technical style is unobtrusive…a vehicle for direct
communication between the author and the reader.
Like a clean window, it does not call attention to itself in any way.”
The book concludes with a comprehensive “Anatomy of a Report”
that includes everything the technical writer needs to know about creating an
excellent document. There is also a
report writing checklist that business writers will want to use as a valuable
reference tool.
Ellen Tanner March of The New York Times writes: “The
Elements of Structure: The Step Beyond Style by prolific author Liza Sisk is
a pithy, helpful guide to workplace writing that will prove as invaluable as a
stapler… Whether you are a CEO or a new employee, you can’t afford to be without
this marvelous little work. It’s
one way to ensure you have the ‘write stuff’ in the workplace.”
The Elements of Structure:
The Step Beyond Style
Education/How To
Publication: October, 2007
Author: Liza Sisk
ISBN: 978-1-59526-822-8
Paperback
Pages: 108
Price: $9.95
Size: 6” x 9”
Available from Llumina Press, Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Amazon
and other bookstores.
Toll-Free Orders Line: 1-866-229-9244
Or visit us at http://www.llumina.com
About the Author:
Liza Sisk is a prolific author and poet.
As a Marketing Communications expert, she worked at General Electric,
Westinghouse and other Fortune 100 companies where she taught courses in
technical writing and communications skills. She also has edited in-house
magazines and managed training for computer departments.
An acclaimed poet, she has published two books of poetry and a chapbook
of poems.