Writing An Analytic Essay
Many essays for school will require you to write down your own analysis of various subjects, from books to films to current events. As you may expect, the success of an analytic piece will depend heavily on the quality of the though you put into it. Needless to say, however, the way you write and [...]
Business Reports That Grab People’s Attention
Writing a report for work? Make sure both your co-workers and bosses pay enough attention to flesh out the details, instead of just giving it a glance, leaving your proposals and recommendations in incompletely-informed hands. If you don’t consider yourself and find the task overwhelming, here are a few tips to hopefully help you out. [...]
Writing Numbers For Business Documents
When crafting business reports and documents, numbers can be one of the trickiest items to include in your text. How exactly do you write them so it doesn’t erode both the readability and professionalism of your documents? As a rule, all numbers smaller than 10 are usually spelled out in words. Filling your copy with [...]
Writing With Impact: Five Techniques
There are literally hundreds of ways anyone can craft their essays to make the most impact. The book Bang! Writing With Impact, in fact, lists over 200 of these strategies designed to help you create writing that produces the results you’re looking for. These five techniques are a few of our favorites: 1. Parallelism This [...]
Sugarcoating Bad News
Some news are benign enough to be delivered in a straightforward manner. Others, however, may prove too harsh to your intended audience and need to be glazed with a little bit of candy in order to make it more palatable. Sugarcoating bad news is often referred to as spin, a way of delivering the same [...]
Five Ways To Use A Comma
Still having a hard time figuring out the use of commas in your writing? You’re not alone. Everyday, I come across emails and blog posts that either need more of the punctuation or use too much of it. Like most of writing, though, there are very straightforward guidelines to using commas and they aren’t all [...]
How To Tighten Your Copy
Does your copy read like it’s filled with plenty of loose ends? It’s normally difficult to figure out where to fix up your writing, leading to plenty of trial and error that can end up wasting your time. If you’re going through your copy and feel like something better can be done, try these easy [...]
Always Refer To Companies In Singular Form
When I started writing professionally, I always treated companies as a plural noun. I never even gave it much thought. Since companies are made up of a group of people, I assumed I was referring to every single one of those individuals whenever I wrote. Looking back at those pieces that actually made it to [...]
3 Types Of Business Emails That Get Ignored
When writing business emails, you want it to get read. A passed-over email usually means a lost opportunity – one that you may never get back again. These five types of emails are high on the chopping block that busy professionals regularly give up on without a second thought. 1. Emails that pile on the [...]
Writing Reference Letters
Reference letters from a reputable source can be an invaluable help to anyone who’s trying to either land a job or get into a good school. When you have family or friends that ask you to craft one such letter for them, it’s usually difficult to say no – no matter how much of a [...]
