Good Grief, Good Grammar

From the typing pool to top management, good grammar makes good business sense. A clear, concise writing style is the key to making your ideas stand out and keeping your career on track. Dianna Booher, president of the Houston-based Booher Writing Consultants, offers an innovative, entertaining, step-by-step approach that makes the principles of grammar pleasant to learn and easy to remember. Whether you need to brush up on the basics or fine-tune your style, the answers are at your fingertips in Good Grief, Good Grammar. It's a comprehensive guide to: -- Correct word usage -- Sentence structure -- Phrases and clauses -- Voice, verb tense, and mood -- Punctuation, spelling, and capitalization -- Common errors such as split infinitives and dangling participles, and how to avoid them. Plus a series of fun-to-take tests to gauge your language skills and your progress.

Dianna Booher is a business-communication strategist, speaker, and an author of numerous books. She’s the recipient of an American Library Association’s Best Nonfiction of the Year Award, a member of the Speaker Hall of Fame, and one of Successful Meeting magazine’s Top 21 Speakers for the 21st Century. Her consulting firm, Booher Research Institute, works with more than a third of the Fortune 500 companies to improve their communication.