Business Writing
Tips on writing effective emails, memos, letters, and reports.
What Is the "You Attitude"?
The "you attitude" is more than a matter of playing with pronouns or even of playing nice. It's good business.
The "you attitude" is more than a matter of playing with pronouns or even of playing nice. It's good business.
Ten Quick Tips to Improve Your Writing
Whether we're composing a blog or a business letter, an email or an essay, our goal should be to respond clearly and directly to the needs and interests of our readers. These ten tips should help us to improve our writing whenever we set out to inform or persuade.
Whether we're composing a blog or a business letter, an email or an essay, our goal should be to respond clearly and directly to the needs and interests of our readers. These ten tips should help us to improve our writing whenever we set out to inform or persuade.
Twelve Tips for Improving Online Writing
Most online reading is actually skimming and scanning. So to grab and hold our readers' attention, we can't afford to waste words. The trick to writing lean on our blogs and websites is to keep the meaning and cut the rest. Here's how.
Most online reading is actually skimming and scanning. So to grab and hold our readers' attention, we can't afford to waste words. The trick to writing lean on our blogs and websites is to keep the meaning and cut the rest. Here's how.
Ten Tips on How to Write a Professional Email
Email is the most common form of written communication in the business world--and the most commonly abused. Follow these ten tips to keep your messages clear, concise, professional, and polite.
Email is the most common form of written communication in the business world--and the most commonly abused. Follow these ten tips to keep your messages clear, concise, professional, and polite.
Compose a Letter of Complaint
Here's a project that will introduce you to brainstorming and give you practice in group writing. You will join with three or four other writers to compose a letter of complaint.
Here's a project that will introduce you to brainstorming and give you practice in group writing. You will join with three or four other writers to compose a letter of complaint.
Top Ten Editing Tips for Business Writers
You can make your working life a little easier by editing your writing with these principles in mind: be clear, concise, considerate, and correct. Here are ten quick editing tips for on-the-job writers.
You can make your working life a little easier by editing your writing with these principles in mind: be clear, concise, considerate, and correct. Here are ten quick editing tips for on-the-job writers.
Commonly Confused Words
Here in our Glossary of Usage you will find more than 100 sets of commonly confused words--with links to definitions, examples, and practice exercises that should help you to keep these words straight.
Here in our Glossary of Usage you will find more than 100 sets of commonly confused words--with links to definitions, examples, and practice exercises that should help you to keep these words straight.
Top Ten Proofreading Tips
Hear what Mark Twain had to say on the subject of proofreading, and then consider our ten tips for proofreading effectively.
Hear what Mark Twain had to say on the subject of proofreading, and then consider our ten tips for proofreading effectively.
Business Writing Sites
Business writers are often called on to compose special kinds of projects (such as memos, letters, reports, and proposals) that follow distinctive conventions. To learn more about those conventions, visit one of these outstanding web sites for business writers.
Business writers are often called on to compose special kinds of projects (such as memos, letters, reports, and proposals) that follow distinctive conventions. To learn more about those conventions, visit one of these outstanding web sites for business writers.
Copyediting Terms
Copyediting is the work that an editor does to improve a manuscript and prepare it for publication. Here we reveal some of the jargon of the copyediting trade: 140 terms and abbreviations used by editors in their efforts to produce copy that is clear, correct, concise, consistent, and comprehensible.
Copyediting is the work that an editor does to improve a manuscript and prepare it for publication. Here we reveal some of the jargon of the copyediting trade: 140 terms and abbreviations used by editors in their efforts to produce copy that is clear, correct, concise, consistent, and comprehensible.
Grammar and Usage Advice Sites
For answers to questions about some of the finer and fussier aspects of the language, visit these three question-and-answer sites--all of them hosted by publishers of major style and usage guides.
For answers to questions about some of the finer and fussier aspects of the language, visit these three question-and-answer sites--all of them hosted by publishers of major style and usage guides.
Sites for Correcting Common Sentence Errors
The five websites described here focus on the most common errors in English: how to recognize those errors and (more importantly) how to correct them.
The five websites described here focus on the most common errors in English: how to recognize those errors and (more importantly) how to correct them.
English as a Second Language Sites
Here are five superior web sites for students and teachers of English as a Second Language (ESL).
Here are five superior web sites for students and teachers of English as a Second Language (ESL).