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How to Use Outlining in Word to Organize Content
Outline View in Microsoft Word can save your life, or at least your sanity when you use it to organize the headings and subheadings in a multi-page business document.
Energize Business Writing With Action Verbs
Effective business writers choose action verbs to relay their message clearly, and to encourage readers to take a required action.
Focus on Reader Action
Every document written for business purposes requires some kind of action from the reader. An effective writer identifies the action and ensures a positive response
How to Keep Business Writing Positive
When you improve the tone of your business communications, you hook your reader and you get results. Learn how to replace negative words with their positive alternatives.
Bankruptcy Can Benefit Business
Bankruptcy is often look at as something negative however; it can help struggling business achieve a positive outcome.
Free Travel Expense Report Template
Download a free expense report template here. This sample expense form for an expense report or travel voucher offers an alternative to costly expense reporting software.
How Engineer Writers Can Improve Their Writing
For many engineers the written word is the only tangible evidence of output. If engineering documents are difficult to read they will not convey the intended message.
Review of The Well-Fed Writer
The second edition of The Well-Fed Writer by freelance commercial writer Peter Bowerman offers a step-by-step map to a lucrative career in business writing.
Writing Effective Complaint Letters
Using a complaint letter template and online writing tools to convey a negative experience to a company in a positive, constructive way produces better results.
Tips for Effective Business Communication
How we communicate is as important, if not more so, than what we communicate. Learn easy tools for effective communication in the workplace.
The A-B-C Approach to Better Business Writing
The most effective business writing is active, bold, and concise. Paying attention to these three elements helps ensure understanding... and results.
The Simple Way to Better Business Writing
With business writing, less is definitely more: less verbiage and corporate jargon will bring more clarity to the message - and help achieve the desired results faster.
Think First for Better Business Writing
For business correspondence that gets results, think carefully about what needs to be said and how it needs to be said before putting pen to paper or fingers to keyboard.
How to Write a Good Creative Brief
Before any creative work starts, any time spend getting the brief right, will pay dividends later, and cut down time wasted on unnecessary work.
How to be a Well-Fed Writer in a Slow Economy
During an economic downturn, writers often find themselves out of work. Author Peter Bowerman shares his secrets to staying "well-fed" even at the worst of times.
Get Better Results From Your Business Email
Be considerate of your reader and your business email will deliver the results you need when you need them.
How to Write Grant Proposals
Six Steps to Receiving Financial Support from both public or private funding groups