Words at Work: An Insider's Guide to the Language of Professions
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (985 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0802715680 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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She is the founding editor of Levenger Press and has written pieces on Winston Churchill, Robert Louis Stevenson and Alexis de Tocqueville for the imprint's titles. Mim Harrison has been a speechwriter, scriptwriter and ghostwriter for numerous professions since 1984. She currently writes a column on the reading habits of writers for wellreadlife.
She goes beyond the easily recognizable terms and offers insight and background to familiar phrases. And in a truly inspired act, placed perfume maker alongside waste manager (as in garbage collector).” Ralph De La Cruz, South Florida Sun-Sentinel“What do you need to know to fly a plane, play a symphony or serve food? For starters, you need to know the lingo. But if that was all there was to the book, it would get old quick….Harrison also throws in unusual jobs such as television promo producers, venture capitalists, microbiologists, magicians. She did interviews in 15 professions to pin down expressionsThis isn't about jargon. Professional language is collegial.” USA Today“Harrison, who obviously has a finely tuned writer's ear, has been picking up the nuances of work language for years….Harrison started with the most obvious, the ones we all think we know
Whether you're a linguaphile who has always been curious about the lingoes attached to professions, or starting out in one of the occupations and hoping to get a leg up on the vocabulary, Words at Work will both charm and educate. The occupations are eclectic, from every day jobs like waste manager to singular positions like symphony orchestra musician; but the connections between wordswhich make you feel as though you're having a conversation with someone in the knowand Mim Harrison's skills as a writer, give readers an uncommon and highly perceptive glimpse into each of these worlds. Now you'll know what it means when the musician sheds the part (practices the music), the airline pilot mentions the wing walkers (the gate crew that guides your plane to a stop) and the waste manager yells out white goods (an appliance like a stove or refrigerator that is destined for the trash heap).Harrison is captivated by the singular vocabularies of these occupations and she shares her fascination with readers. Mim Harrison has a unique ear for language, and a gifted light touch as a writer. A fascinating view into the arcane nature of the workplace, Words at Work delves into fifteen professionsboth ordinary and extraordinaryto