Business English for the 21st Century or Macroeconomics

Business English for the 21st Century

Author: Patricia T Ellison

Business for the 21st Century 4e by Ellison and Barry

 

The ability to communicate effectively is one the most critical skills needed in one's personal and professional life.  The first edition of this classic text, published over three decades ago, has improved the communication skills of thousands of students.  This edition continues in the same tradition by providing a straightforward approach to learning business English fundamentals.

 

Popular Retained Features:

• Concise chapters concentrate on one topic at a time, thereby enabling students to master material before attempting to learn new material.
• The Impact of Language, When Bad Grammar Happens to Good People, and A Word Tip from the Real World boxes supplement chapter discussions.

Features New to this Edition:

• NEW streamlined text organization with 34 chapters grouped into 10 units, allowing instructors to easily pick and choose.
• NEW end-of-unit Review and Post-tests identify learned material and material that needs additional review.
• NEW Proofreading Exercise in each chapter

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Table of Contents:

	Preface
	To the Student
	Collaborative Learning
	About the Authors
	Assignment Sheet
	Pretest
Ch. 1	Business Language and Dictionaries	1
Ch. 2	A Few Spelling Rules	13
Ch. 3	A Preview of the Parts of Speech	25
Ch. 4	Sentence Analysis	37
Ch. 5	Capitalization	51
Ch. 6	Plural Forms of Nouns	65
Ch. 7	The Use of Possessive Nouns	75
Ch. 8	Comment and Review	87
Ch. 9	Personal Pronouns	97
Ch. 10	Agreement of Antecedents and Pronouns	109
Ch. 11	Miscellaneous Pronouns at Work	119
Ch. 12	Verbs: Agreement and Mood	129
Ch. 13	Verbs in Sentences	141
Ch. 14	Tenses of Verbs	149
Ch. 15	Regular and Irregular Verbs	159
Ch. 16	Review of Pronouns and Verbs	171
Ch. 17	Verbals	181
Ch. 18	Modifiers of Nouns and Pronouns	191
Ch. 19	Special Uses of Adjectives	201
Ch. 20	Adverbs in Use	211
Ch. 21	Prepositions	223
Ch. 22	Connectives in Coordinate Constructions	231
Ch. 23	Connectives in Complex Sentences	243
Ch. 24	Review	255
Ch. 25	The Building of Sentences	265
Ch. 26	The Building of Sentences (continued)	275
Ch. 27	The Writing of Numbers	283
Ch. 28	Uses of the Comma	291
Ch. 29	Uses of the Comma (continued)	301
Ch. 30	Uses of the Comma (concluded)	309
Ch. 31	Uses of Semicolons and Colons	321
Ch. 32	Review	331
Ch. 33	Uses of Dashes, Parentheses, and Brackets	341
Ch. 34	Uses of Quotation Marks, Ellipses, and Apostrophes	357
Ch. 35	Uses of Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points	369
Ch. 36	The Division of Words	377
Ch. 37	General Vocabulary Study for Business Use	385
Ch. 38	Some Terms Commonly Used in Business	393
Ch. 39	Executives' Choice	401
Ch. 40	General Review	415
	Posttest	431
	Key Items	433
	Glossary	447
	Index	453

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Macroeconomics: A Contemporary Introduction

Author: William A McEachern

This very successful textbook is distinguished by a superior writing style that draws upon common reader experiences to introduce economic concepts, making economic theory more accessible and interesting. "Case Studies" and numerous examples take advantage of readers' intuitive knowledge of economics, building upon real-life situations. A streamlined design places pedagogy and illustrations directly within the flow of the text, making them less distracting and more useful for readers. A fully integrated program of technology enhancements sets this text apart by pairing the book with numerous online multimedia learning tools that have been developed to help the text better serve a wide range of learning styles. The text uniquely integrates classroom use of The Wall Street Journal by including in-text pedagogy to help readers learn to analyze the latest economic events as reported in the Journal.

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A text/CD-ROM package for a first course in macroeconomics. Early chapters cover macro- and microeconomics foundations, and later material uses the aggregate demand and aggregate supply models to underscore the difference between active and passive approaches to the economy. Pages are designed to be reader friendly, with color photos and graphics, plus margin terms and case studies. Pedagogical features include chapter summaries, review questions, problems, experiential exercises, and mathematical appendices with exercises, as well as notes on web sites, and a 12-page guide to reading the . Many exercises require students to consult the and the Internet. The CD-ROM contains study tools and graphing tutorials. This fifth edition contains expanded international material. Economic jargon has been reduced. The author is a professor of economics at the University of Connecticut. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)