English for business - W. Ferrier Mavor

This textbook is designed to aid students in Britain and overseas towards a more concise, lucid and correct expression of English. It provides model forms of business communication to stimulate interest in words and their function, but most importantly to illustrate the force of simple and direct English.;This edition has been revised to take account of changes in modern commercial practice, particularly in the field of new technology and its effect on office processing techniques. It contains a variety of practical assignments and many examples of English used in everyday business correspondence together with exercises, comprehension passages and an expanded section of sample examination papers. The section relating to new technology explains such topics as telemessages, telex and fax machines.;This text should be particularly useful for those students taking elementary and intermediate RSA and LCCI examinations. An ELBS/LPBB edition is available.