Written documents in the workplace

• Other Authors: Alamargot, D., Terrier, P., Cellier, J.-M.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2007.
• Series: Studies in writing.
• Subjects: Business writing.; Written communication.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Business Writing.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess; ebrary; MyiLibrary
• Item Description: Title from PDF title page (viewed Nov. 30, 2007).
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9780080553757 (electronic bk.); 0080553753 (electronic bk.)

Divided into three parts, the first of which provides a linguistic definition of professional documents, describing their different types and genres. This definition necessarily takes into account both the formal characteristics of these types of document (e.g. nature of linguistic units involved) and their functional goals (the way these linguistic units are used to fulfill the text's communicative aim). The second part focuses on the mental mechanisms involved in written production in the workplace. One of the aims of a professional writer is to compose a text which can be understood. Text c.