English for Careers: Business, Professional, and Technical, 11th edition

For courses in Business English, Business Communications, English Composition, Developmental Writing & English.

English for Careers, 11e is designed to keep pace with changing student populations and current workplace trends. Appropriate for a wide audience, it helps students acquire fluency in Standard English and understand the basic principles of grammar, punctuation and writing. Offering a warm tone and accessible presentation, it focuses on the “real-world” English skills needed to get a good job, hold a job, and advance in a career. This edition offers a new and improved instructional design, career connection features, and more real-world assignments. 

For courses in Business English, Business Communications, English Composition, Developmental Writing & English.

English for Careers, 11e is designed to keep pace with changing student populations and current workplace trends. Appropriate for a wide audience, it helps students acquire fluency in Standard English and understand the basic principles of grammar, punctuation and writing. Offering a warm tone and accessible presentation, it focuses on the “real-world” English skills needed to get a good job, hold a job, and advance in a career. This edition offers a new and improved instructional design, career connection features, and more real-world assignments. 

Features

Focuses on English skills within a business context—by teaching grammar, punctuation, and writing within a real-world, careers setting that is student-friendly and relevant.  

Introduces the writing process and emphasizes revising and editing—by training students to review each sentence they write and recognize errors in grammar, style, and usage.

Examines speaking as well as writing—by discussing the differences between spoken language vs. written language.

Includes a variety of exercises for drill and practice and skill development—such as Communications Connection, Writing Practice, Proofreading Practice, Pre-test, Post-test, Supplemental Practice Exercises, and Word Power exercises.

This eleventh edition features a new instructional design that offers a more unified presentation. With new features and exercises, it draws a closer connection between English skills and workplace needs.

New and improved instructional design organizes chapters in units, removes the Read/Recap/Replay headings and moves self-check exercises/worksheets to the end of each chapter for a more unified presentation.

New Career Connection chapter openers identify the skills employers value most (writing skills, teamwork, use of social networking, etc.) and offer career-related tips.   

New Communications Connection chapter endings feature real-world assignments so students learn how to produce business documents, emails, letters etc.

Integrated boxed summaries highlight grammar rules and key points right in the chapter instead of at the end where they can be more easily overlooked.

New chapter pre-tests and post-tests assess the student's basic knowledge and identify need-to-know content from each chapter.

A new Writing Practice activity provides more writing applications at the end of each chapter.

New end-of-unit assessments test what students have learned over a series of chapters.