本书的最大亮点是，运用当代国际商务英语写作的原则和方法，对充斥大量陈词滥调与冗词赘句的传统信函进行现代化升级改造，即去旧换新、化繁为简，使其更加符合现当代商务英语写作标准与要求。本书主要包括三大部分：商贸业务书面交流的体验感受、商贸英语交流技能的训练和商务英语写作修辞意识的研讨培养。

本书适用于从事国际商贸活动的白领阶层、经常用英语进行书面沟通的商务人士以及即将毕业并有志于从事国际商贸活动的大中专院校的学生，还可以作为想了解商务写作的其他人士的参考材料。

1 Layouts＆Components of BE Letters

 1.1 Laying Out Business English Letters

 1.2 Understanding the Essential＆Optional Components of BE Letters

 1.3 Addressing an Envelope

2 Asking to Establish Business Relations＆ Replies

 2.1 Experience＆Practice

 2.2 Communicating＆Writing Skills

 2.3 Writers' Workshop ：The Process of Writing

3 Credit Enquiries＆Replies

 3.1 Experience＆Practice

 3.2 Communicating＆Writing Skills

 3.3 Writers' Workshop：Businesslike Poise＆Formal Style

4 Enquiries＆Replies

 4.1 Experience＆Practice

 4.2 Communicating＆Writing Skills

 4.3 Writers' Workshop：Opening＆Closing a Letter

5 Quotations, Offers＆Counter-offers

 5.1 Experience＆Practice

 5.2 Communicating＆Writing Skills

 5.3 Writers' Workshop ：Proposition vs Counter- proposition ( 1 )

6 Orders＆Replies

 6.1 Experience＆Practice

 6.2 Communicating＆Writing Skills

 6.3 Writers' Workshop：Textual Development of Letters (2)

7 Payment＆Replies

 7.1 Experience＆Practice

 7.2 Communicating＆Writing Skills

 7.3 Writers' Workshop：Textual Development of Letters (3)

8 Shipment＆Replies

 8.1 Experience＆Practice

 8.2 Communicating＆Writing Skills

 8.3 Writers' Workshop：Principles for BE Writing

9 Packing＆Replies

 9.1 Experience＆Practice

 9.2 Communicating＆Writing Skills

 9.3 Writers'Workshop：Concreteness vs Abstractness

10 Insurance＆Replies

 10.1 Experience＆Practice

 10.2 Communicating＆Writing Skills

 10.3 Writers' Workshop：Qualities of Effective Sentence Writing

11 Claims＆Adjustments

 11.1 Experience＆Practice

 11.2 Communicating＆Writing Skills

 11.3 Writers' Workshop：Create an Appropriate Tone

12 Agency

 12.1 Experience＆Practice

 12.2 Communicating＆Writing Skills

 12.3 Writers' Workshop：Conciseness＆Simplicity

13 Social Letters

 13．1 Experience＆Practice

 13．2 Communicating＆Writing Skill。

 13．3 Writers’Workshop：Completeness Incompleteness

14 Memorandums

 14．1 Experience＆Practice

 14．2 Communicating＆Writing Skills

 14．3 Writers’Workshop：Trend for Contemporary BE letter Writing

15 Business Reports

 15．1 Experience＆Practice

 15．2 Communicating＆Writing Skills

 15．3 Writers’Workshop：Accuracy＆Objectivity

Appendixes

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