| Business & Professional Writing Resources
Resume & Curriculum Vitae
Your résumé or CV is an important document that represents your qualifications and experience to a future employer. There are several ways you can organize and format your résumé to suit your specific situation.
In most job applications, you are also required to submit a cover letter along with your résumé. The purpose of the cover letter is to inform a potential employer of how your qualifications and experience make you an excellent candidate for the position you are seeking. It is an opportunity for you to introduce yourself in more detail.
The following links provide suggestions and examples:
- Online résumé guru Rebecca Smith provides several before-and-after samples of résumés she has revised and redesigned. This site includes information and examples of cover letters and résumés as well as other useful information related to job skills at http://www.eresumes.com.
Professional Writing Resources
Writing in the business world, as with other audience-specific writing, requires knowledge of convention, style, and format. From writing a formal business letter to composing a proposal, an inter-office memo, a report, or an email response, some basic strategies are necessary.
The following links provide suggestions and examples:
- Donna Shaw’s Business Writing Site
This site provides tips on a variety of business writing related topics including memos, reports, proposals, resumes and cover letters.
- Memo Writing (Purdue OWL)
This section defines the memo and offers basic plans for designing an effective memo.
- Memos by Dan Murphy
Another overview of memo writing which includes a list of helpful references.
- Online Technical Writing: Planning Reports Outlining
The page-design section of an online textbook for technical writing by author David A. McMurrey, this site offers a detailed step-by-step guide for developing an outline for a report project and includes helpful examples and practice exercises.
- Research Reports (Purdue OWL)
This section includes an overview of writing a research report along with pre-writing strategies and general guidelines.
Presentation & Communications Skills
- Presentations
This online handout written by Molly Brown offers guidelines for a systematic approach to preparing presentations.
- Presentations: Donna Shaw’s Business Writing Site
An informative section that covers basic theory, process, preparation, and planning aspects of effective presentations.
- Working with Photos:
School of Communications, Elon University
Professor Gerald M. Gibson offers lecture notes on how to work with photos in business publications, part of a course he teaches on corporate publishing.
Other Business & Professional Resources
- The companion site for The Business Writer's Companion, Fourth Edition includes many useful links and tips. To use this site you will need to register as a student or instructor. Registration is free, however, and only takes a few moments.
- The Law Student’s Guide to Good Writing
This guide provides explanations of the rules of grammar, punctuation, and good writing that are most important to legal writing. It also includes exercises (with answers) on each of the topics discussed.
- The Law Student’s Guide to Good Writing
This guide provides explanations of the rules of grammar, punctuation, and good writing that are most important to legal writing. It also includes exercises (with answers) on each of the topics discussed.
Bibliography for this Business & Professional Writing Resources page.
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