Textbook Problem

INSTRUCTOR: Visit the Instructor Companion Website for lecture notes, solutions, discussion guides, and other resources.

Every chapter provides an editing exercise to fine-tune your grammar and mechanics skills. These are the skills that employers frequently find lacking in employees. In this e-mail look for errors in proofreading, grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, word use, and number form. Study the guidelines in the Grammar/Mechanics Handbook in Appendix D, including the lists of Confusing Words and Frequently Misspelled Words.

YOUR TASK. Edit the following (a) by inserting corrections in your textbook or on a photocopy using the proofreading marks in Appendix C or (b) by downloading the message from www.cengagebrain.com and correcting at your computer. Hint: You should make about 30 edits. Your instructor may ask you to use Track Changes as you edit. See the Communication Workshop in Chapter 4 for more information about using Track Changes