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Write for Business eTips are writing strategies delivered to your inbox for free every week. With practical instruction and engaging activities, eTips help many types of business writers.

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Jan 22 2020

Dishing on Dashes This tip will show you how to add the versatile dash to your writing toolkit. Plus, learn the nitty gritty of em dashes versus en dashes.

Jan 16 2020

How to Create Reader-Friendly Writing Business writing too often forces readers to navigate dense paragraphs and inflated language, leading to frustration and miscommunication. Learn strategies for providing your own readers with a friendlier and more efficient reading experience.

Jan 9 2020

Maddening Modifiers Adjectives and adverbs both add flair and specificity to communication, but some common modifiers can trip us up, creating grammatical problems.

Jan 2 2020

Choose Your Writing Resolution Kick off the new year with a writing resolution. Learn about our recommendations or pick your own.

Dec 23 2019

Hooray for Holiday Letters Today's tip will introduce strategies for writing your letters quickly and effectively and then highlight holiday grammar gremlins to avoid.

Dec 18 2019

Lessons from the Top of the Business World What can a Fortune 500 CEO teach us about writing?

Dec 11 2019

Striking the Right Tone Discover strategies for developing the best voice for your business writing.

Dec 5 2019

It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's An Apostrophe! Stay vigilant about apostrophe uses and abuses.

Nov 26 2019

Master the Out-of-Office Reply Holiday season means "out-of-office reply" season. Check out effective templates for out-of-office messages and learn some fun and productive ways to break the mold.

Nov 19 2019

Writing with Flow Like any writer, your sentences won't always come out as smoothly as you'd like. We've got you covered. This tip will help you find and fix sentences that sound choppy or rambling.

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