Effective writing skills help you communicate clearly and quickly in the workplace and reduce the time required for clarification or questions.
Writing Skills
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Why Pencil Editing is Important
To ensure correctness in your writing, pencil editing is one of the best things you can do. Pencil editing is a proofreading technique. To do it, touch and speak each word when you edit your documents.
Here's a great example of why pencil…
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Plain language doesn’t mean dumbing down
Many people believe that plain language equals simplifying the language to a very low level. This is untrue. Plain language means using language and formatting that allows the reader to get the message after one read because the document is clear…
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Why wine can’t compliment a meal!
Why not you ask? Because if your wine compliments the meal, it means that your wine is praising your meal!
Be aware of the spelling of these two words: complement and compliment. The meanings of these two words…
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Go ahead and start a sentence with the word “because”!
Hands up everyone who was taught that you can’t start a sentence with the word because. Ah, thought so – many of you were taught that “rule”.
The most used and respected style guides support the use of because at the…