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The Oxford Guide to Effective Writing and Speaking is the essential guide for everyone who needs to communicate in clear and effective English, both written and spoken. John Seely looks at the key factors to consider in tailoring your material so that you get your message across, such as understanding the demands of particular audiences, subjects, and situations.Clearly organized, the book is arranged in four sections:A Communicating in everyday life - covers a wide range of communications including writing emails to giving presentations and preparing reports.B Getting your message across - focuses on important factors such as the audience, the subject, time, and purpose.C Communication tools - offers advice on grammar, vocabulary, spelling, and punctuation to ensure that communication is accurate as well as appropriate.D The process of writing - looks at whats involved in writing longer pieces, including planning and drafting, research, summaries, editing, and presentation.Full of practical guidance, this book also includes helpful You Try sections and guidelines to practise and reinforce what youve learnt. The answers to the exercises in the You Try sections can be found at the back of the book.This is the most comprehensive guide to using English for effective communication available; it covers an unrivalled range of situations and requirements, making it ideal for use at work, at school and university, or at home.

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The Oxford Guide to

Effective Writing
and Speaking

The Oxford Guide to

Effective Writing
and Speaking

How to communicate clearly

Third Edition

John Seely

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Preface to first edition A book like this which covers a wide range of - photo 3

Preface to first edition

A book like this, which covers a wide range of topics, has to draw on the knowledge and experience of many different advisers. I have been fortunate to receive the help of readers who have given great time and care to commenting on early drafts of the manuscript and advising how it might be improved. In particular, I should like to thank Brigid Avison, Alison Baverstock, Tim Cracknell, David Elsmore, Jacky Hart, Caroline Hartnell, Andrew Heron, and Samantha Manning in the UK, while Dr Nelson Ong of New York offered an American perspective. They will probably recognize where their advice and comments have produced changes in the final text. For this I am deeply grateful, but, of course, the final responsibility is my own.

I should like to thank the staff at Oxford University Press who have patiently supported this project, in particular Kate Wandless and Kendall Clarke, for their encouragement and advice.

Closer to home, Katherine and Timothy Seely gave excellent and critical consumers comments, especially about the communication needs of students and those seeking and gaining their first jobs. (I knew those long years of parenting would pay off eventually!) My debt to my wife, Elizabeth, is immeasurable. Although we have both worked as writers and editors for many years, I can only say that this time I was even more vague and abstracted than usual, but she bore it with great good humour. As ever, she read the manuscript with a critical eye and made many trenchant and invaluable comments, and it is with gratitude that this book is dedicated to her.

Preface to second edition

I have taken the opportunity of this new edition to make a number of changes. I have added a new chapter on emails, and have made extensive revisions to the chapter on job applications reflecting current practice. In addition, there are numerous small changes throughout the book designed to bring the text up to date.

Preface to third edition

In the revisions and additions for this edition I have focused on two areas in particular. The use of digital media for both informal and formal communication has taken over much of the territory where print media once held sway. This edition aims to reflect these developments, especially in , with the aim of providing a more thorough and, I hope, realistic perspective on the processes of writing. Elsewhere, numerous changes have been made to update advice and examples.

Contents

At times the process of communicating with other people in speech or writing can seem straightforward and simple. At other times we may find it difficult and complicated. The Oxford Guide to Effective Writing and Speaking is organized so that readers can look at writing and speaking in four different ways. Three of them are shown in the diagram below:

At one end we have the speaker or writer with ideas to communicate At the - photo 4

At one end we have the speaker (or writer), with ideas to communicate. At the other is the audiencethe people who are waiting to receive the speakers message. In between are three screens through which the message has to pass. Each of these screens corresponds to a major section in this book.

Situation

Before we can begin to frame our message effectively we have to consider the - photo 5

Before we can begin to frame our message effectively we have to consider the situation within which we are communicating. In particular we have to find answers to these questions:

What?

Exactly what is my subject matter?

Who?

With whom do I wish to communicate?

Why?

What is my purpose in communicating?

When and where?

Are there features about the place and time which affect how I should write or speak?

How?

What type of communication am I aiming atnarration? description? exposition? argument?

These five questions are the subject matter of section B, Getting the message across.

Format

The format is the particular type of communication demanded by the situation.

In Communicating in everyday life we look at the most important formats in - photo 6

In , Communicating in everyday life, we look at the most important formats in which people may have to communicate:

2 Business letters

3 E-writing

4 Job applications

5 Organizing a meeting

6 Presentations

7 Reports

8 Essays, papers, and dissertations

9 The media

Language

None of this is any use, of course, unless we have a good control over the medium of communication: the English language.

Communication Tools provides guidance on 15 Talking about English The - photo 7

, Communication Tools, provides guidance on:

15 Talking about English
The different ways in which it is possible to describe the language.

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