Word Smart for Business: Cultivating a Six-figure Vocabulary (Smart Guides) |  | Author: Paul Westbrook
Publisher: Princeton Review
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ISBN: 0679783911
Dewey Decimal Number: 650.03
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Publication Date: May 20, 1997
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Cultivating a Six-Figure Vocabulary
Over 4,000 business terms defined
Entries from every field: Accounting, Management, Law, Real Estate, Computers, Math, Government, and more
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 These three books are permanently placed on my working desk, next to my portable computer! October 18, 2006
Lee Say Keng (Singapore)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Word Smart: Building an Educated Vocabulary
Word Smart II: How to Build a More Powerful Vocabulary
by Adam Robinson
Word Smart for Business: Cultivating a Six Figure Vocabulary
by Paul West Brook
These three books are permanently placed on my working desk, next to my portable computer. I find them very useful as reference guides to writing smart.
The first two books have a combined inventory of almost 1,700 important words. They have been written by Adam Robinson & The Princeton Review Team. As some readers may know, Adam Robinson happens to be also the author of 'What Smart Students Know' a very good book about smart study techniques. The two books are originally targetted at students preparing for SAT & other standardised tests, but I find them very useful for working professionals.
The third book has an inventory of over 4,000 important business terms, covering quite a broad spectrum of business disciplines. It has been written by a noted financial planning expert.
I enjoy browsing these three books from time to time. I often refer to them as I write my daily business correspondence as well as my reviews on amazon website.
I strongly recommend these three books to readers who want to communicate effectively, be more persuasive & more importantly, get more from your reading.
 Not badly written, but scattered, unfocused information August 22, 2001
Bart Tare (United States)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I am writing TOEIC test preparation materials and checked this book out (the 1999 version, which is 474 pages long) to help me design a business-oriented vocabulary book for ESL students. Basically, Word Smart for Business is a 4,000 entry, A-Z style dictionary. The entries are all assigned to one of twelve categories: Accounting, Business and Management, Computers and Communications, Economics, Finance, Human Resources, Insurance, Legal, Math, Real Estate, Business Slang, and Taxes. While Mr. Westbrook does include a variety of terms from each of the above categories, I did not find Word Smart for Business too helpful in my TOEIC designing task. First, I think Word Smart needs some sort of organizational scheme; perhaps the words could be organized by category or theme. A thematic organizational approach would have made the book more user friendly, in my opinion. Next, there seem to be more than a few random words (especially in the "slang" and "math" categories) in Word Smart that have little to do with business or business English. For example, while it's true that slang terms such as "no brainer" and "out to lunch" are sometimes used in a business context, aren't they just as often used in other contexts? Likewise, including math terms like the Pythagorean Theorem and the algebraic distributive law was also puzzling to me. Do people actually use these math terms in a business context? On a positive note, I liked some of the interesting charts and comics that were included with the terms. I found myself wishing there were more visuals like this in Word Smart. I was also not sure who the audience for this book was: It seems too basic for someone who is hardcore in their business knowledge, but too random and complicated for a business ESL-type student. Word Smart for Business has some interesting material, but needs a clearer focus.
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