Essentials of Business Communication (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Mary Ellen Guffey, Dana Loewy
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 3, Problem 13CT
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To determine:
For what kind of job is Ashley qualified if she does not really care about punctuations?
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Punctuation marks are the marks like colon, comma which makes the language and the sentences in which they are used to be more effective.
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