Revel for Workplace Communications: The Basics -- Access Card

For courses in Professional Communication and Workplace Writing.

Clear, down-to-earth presentation focusing entirely on job-related communications

Revel Workplace Communications: The Basics, 8th Edition meets the specialized needs of its intended audience -- students entering trades, returning adult students, and other non-traditional learners -- by focusing exclusively on practical applications in favor of theory. Searles' tone is conversational and user-friendly, making this text ideal for learners of all abilities. Among many revisions and enhancements, the 8th Edition updates and expands coverage of searching for jobs online, creating an online profile on sites such as LinkedIn, writing cover emails, and crafting a r sum to submit online -- and for the first time is available via Revel(TM).

Revel is Pearson's newest way of delivering our respected content. Fully digital and highly engaging, Revel replaces the textbook and gives students everything they need for the course. Informed by extensive research on how people read, think, and learn, Revel is an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience -- for less than the cost of a traditional textbook.

NOTE: Revel is a fully digital delivery of Pearson content. This ISBN is for the standalone Revel access card. In addition to this access card, you will need a course invite link, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Revel.

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."