How long does it take to read Effective Business Communications?
Herta A. Murphy
Effective Business Communications by Herta A. Murphy takes about 13 hours 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 35 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1972. 741 pages, about 203,775 words.
28 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 22 hours 39 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 29 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This text now includes a prologue on the high-technology office of today and tomorrow, including international and intercultural examples. Over 400 business examples show how and how not to express ideas, and there are over 300 end-of-chapter exercises and problems, including detailed cases. There is a greatly enlarged chapter on global communications to show how international and intercultural communications affect business, and new boxed examples of written communication throughout the text. Coverage of new technology, employment-related communication topics, business reports, and oral communications has also been expanded.
Subjects: Commercial correspondence, Business communication, Business report writing, Communication in management
