Revel for Workplace Communications

George J. Searles is a professor of English and Latin at Mohawk Valley Community College. He has also taught at Green Haven State Prison, on the graduate level for New School University, and on Pratt Institute’s upstate campus. He has served on the governing boards of both the Modern Language Association and the North East Modern Language Association, presenting scholarly papers at the annual conventions of these and other such professional organizations. In addition, he has served as a communications consultant to many corporate clients and social services agencies, as well as the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation. Along with numerous articles, reviews, and poems in popular and academic periodicals, he has published three volumes of literary criticism from university presses and, in addition to Workplace Communications: The Basics, two editions of a first-year composition textbook. A member of the editorial advisory board of the scholarly journal Philip Roth Studies, he has received two SUNY Chancellor’s medals for excellence, and is a former Carnegie Foundation “New York State Professor of the Year” and New York State United Teachers “Higher Education Member of the Year.”

1. The Keys to Successful Communication: Purpose, Audience, and Tone
2. Workplace Correspondence: Memos, E­mail, Text Messages, and Business Letters
3. Effective Visuals: Tables, Graphs, Charts, and Illustrations
4. Short Reports: Page Design, Formats, and Types
5. Fliers, Brochures, Newsletters, and Web Sites
6. Instructions and Procedure Descriptions
7. Job Application Process: On­Line Search, Letter, Résumé, Interview, and Follow­Up
8. Oral Presentations: Preparation and Delivery
9. Proposals
10. Long Reports: Format, Collaboration, and Documentation