# Workplace Writing: A Handbook for Common Workplace Genres and Professional Writing

- By: Anna Goins - Author / Cheryl Rauh - Author / Danielle Tarner - Author / Daniel Von Holten
- Publisher: New Prairie Press
- Source: [Open Textbook Library](https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/workplace-writing-a-handbook-for-common-workplace-genres-and-professional-writing)
- Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
- PDF: https://newprairiepress.org/ebooks/8/
- eBook: https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/k0698b678

This handbook is designed for a generalized business writing course that seeks to meet the needs of a variety of student majors and career interests. In it you will find: descriptions and discussions of common genres, both routine and formal, print and electronic, and in-class activities and sample assignments. You will also find commentary on how to adapt the writing process to the rhetorical constraints of a workplace as well as how to think about, conduct, and use research outside an academic setting. Throughout you will note a persistent emphasis on audience awareness and direct style