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Business English

by Mary Ellen Guffey

Published 2008464 pagesISBN 978-0-3246-2940-8

"Business English, 11th Edition, by Mary Ellen Guffey and Carolyn Seefer makes students into successful communicators in any business arena with its proven grammar instruction and supporting in-text and online resources. The market leader in grammar and mechanics since its first publication, Business English uses a three-level approach to break topics into manageable units, and gives you flexibility in planning your course. Packed with insights from more than thirty years of classroom experience in business communications, Business English also includes access to the premier website where instructors and students will find a vast array of resources for building language skills. New to the 11th Edition, CengageNow combines the best of technology to help students identify troublesome concepts and practice new skills."--Publisher website

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Nonfiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

Nonfiction

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Reading experience

Balanced tone · Steady pace

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Who it may suit

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Readers looking for a substantial, immersive commitment with room for a world or argument to unfold.

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Business EnglishMary Ellen Guffey
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A quick reading snapshot

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Reading lengthA longer, immersive read464 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 2008
Primary categoryNonfictionExplore similar books below
ISBN-13
978-0-3246-2940-8
Language
English
Edition record
OL27068570M
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A more thoughtful way into this book

This guide uses the edition details and category signals above to help you choose deliberately. It does not replace the author's work or a full review.

Good to know

Best when you want to settle into a longer reading experience.

Begin with its place in Nonfiction, then notice where the book resists that label.

Try this reading approach

Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. Whose perspective organizes the story, and whose perspective remains outside it?
  2. Which sources or lived experiences carry the author’s central argument?
  3. How does the book change the way you understand its larger subject?

Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.