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		<description><![CDATA[R. Craig Hogan, a former university professor who heads an online school for business writing here, received an anguished e-mail message recently from a prospective student. &#8220;i need help,&#8221; said the message, which was devoid of punctuation. &#8220;i am writing a essay on writing i work for this company and my boss want me to [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were just recently reporting on yet another in a very long line of studies that showed that instant messaging and texting was actually helping kids have better writing skills. So, it was interesting to see an article published up in Canada (thanks to Marcus Carab for sending this in) that claimed a study &#8220;proving&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe you&#8217;ve never penned a single blog entry, never been asked to write a progress report, never had to read over a colleague&#8217;s work for errors, and never had to send a critically important e-mail message to your boss. If that&#8217;s the case, you&#8217;re free to go now. But for most of us, a certain [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is good writing? Ask an English teacher, and they&#8217;ll tell you good writing is grammatically correct. They&#8217;ll tell you it makes a point and supports it with evidence. Maybe, if they&#8217;re really honest, they&#8217;ll admit it has a scholarly tone &#8212; prose that sounds like Jane Austen earns an A, while a paper that [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Download this PowerPoint file This 12-slide presentation covers these training topics: Effective WritingDeveloping good reading strategiesCreating powerful presentations:TonePunctuation, grammar and spellingOrganizing your thoughtsStructuring paragraphs and sentencesWriting to keep the reader engagedSoftening a negative message]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not so long ago, people used to keep diaries to record their quotidian doings &#8212; privately, of course. Now people keep Facebook and Twitter accounts, updating their status daily, hourly, even minute-by-minute, and almost nothing is private. Worse, the modern status update is not always compelling reading. Feeding the cat Watching TV Eating a tuna [...]]]></description>
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