Business Writing
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Friday, January 29th, 2010Here are the ten classic mistakes people make when they write.
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Test Your Knowledge of the Most Common Business Writing Problems
Monday, January 25th, 2010Answer the following questions to test your understanding of 26 common business writing problems. The answers with circles permit you to select only one answer. The answers with squares permit you to select more than one answer for the question.
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12 Tips for Better Business Writing
Friday, January 22nd, 2010Today’s business world is almost entirely information-driven. Whether you run a small business or occupy a small corner of the org-chart at a massive multinational corporation, chances are that the bulk of your job consists of communicating with others, most often in writing.
Of course, there’s email and the traditional business letter, but most business [...]
Stress and a Lesson on Business Writing
Thursday, May 28th, 2009I traveled through Midway Airport in Chicago on my trip to my niece’s funeral last week. Already under stress, I experienced a miscommunication that offered a lesson for business writers.
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Writing an Employee Handbook
Friday, May 1st, 2009Here are sample policies, tips, and considerations when writing employee handbook policies.
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How to Write (in a Thousand Words or Less)
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009I’ve written about editing, eliminating distractions, getting started – it’s time to get down to basics. Too many people don’t know how to write. Period. Yeah, they can make marks on paper, but when it comes to making a clear, compelling, and meaningful statement, especially one more than 140 characters long, they fail.
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Business Writing: Don’t Ask Too Many Questions
Friday, July 25th, 2008Yesterday I received an e-mail solicitation that was a good example of a bad technique: asking too many questions. It began with this question:
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New Year’s Resolutions–More or Less
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008Most New Year’s resolutions have to do with more and less. I will exercise more. I will eat less. I will delegate more. I will spend less time working late. In the spirit of more and less, I offer these suggestions for improving your business writing in the coming year.
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Best Practices for Bullet Points
Monday, July 7th, 2008The days of long sentences in long paragraphs are long gone. Our readers need to retrieve information fast. An excellent way to help them do this is to lay out information in bulleted lists.
Definition: A "bullet point" is an item introduced by a dot ("bullet") or a similar icon, like this:
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War of the Words
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008Not only do I recall my first job, I recall my first memo, a recommendation on how to shorten a lengthy approval cycle. That was 20 years ago, and I doubt that the cycle has changed a bit, but that’s not what I recall about the memo. What I remember is how quickly my readers [...]
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