Chapter Overviews
Index

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Chapter 1: Communication, Your Career, and This Book

Chapter 2: Overview of the Reader-Centered Communication: Obtaining a Job

Chapter 3: Defining Your Communication's Objectives

Chapter 4: Planning for Usability

Chapter 5: Planning Your Persuasive Strategies

Chapter 6: Conducting Research & Writer's Reference Guide: Using Five Reader-Centered Research Methods

Chapter 7: Drafting Paragraphs, Sections, and Chapters & Writer's Reference Guide: Using Seven Reader-Centered Organizational Patterns

Chapter 8: Developing an Effective Style

Chapter 9: Beginning a Communication

Chapter 10: Ending a Communication

Chapter 11: Writing Reader-Centered Front and Back Matter

Chapter 12: Creating Reader-Centered Graphics & Writer's Reference Guide: Creating Twelve Types of Reader-Centered Graphics

Chapter 13: Designing Reader-Centered Pages and Documents

Chapter 14: Revising Your Drafts

Chapter 15: Testing Drafts for Usability and Persuasiveness

Chapter 16: Creating Communications with a Team

Chapter 17: Creating and Delivering Listener-Centered Oral Presentations

Chapter 18: Creating Reader-Centered Web Pages and Websites

Chapter 19: Managing Client and Service-Learning Projects

Chapter 20: Writing Reader-Centered Correspondence: Letters, Memos, and E-mail

Chapter 21: Writing Reader-Centered Reports & Writer's Reference Guide to Creating Three types of Special Reports

Chapter 22: Writing Reader-Centered Proposals

Chapter 23: Writing Reader-Centered Instructions