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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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Mar 12 2020

Indefinite Confusion Agreement errors with indefinite problems are among the most common sentence mistakes we encounter in business writing. Let’s review how to avoid them.

Mar 5 2020

Taking Out the Garbage (Language) We make the case for calling business-speak what it really is: garbage language.

Feb 27 2020

Capital Concerns Get answers to three tricky capitalization questions.

Feb 20 2020

Responding to Passive-Aggressive Emails Do you recognize these common passive-aggressive phrases? Find out what they really mean and how to respond in a manner that maintains positive relationships.

Feb 13 2020

Minding the Gap Explore how to write to readers of British English.

Feb 5 2020

Are You Caught in a Comma Pickle? Get a refresher on when to use a comma before the word "and."

Jan 29 2020

Your Friend, Revision Professional writers sometimes spend several days or weeks revising a single piece of writing. Unless you’re working on a big project, you won’t have so much time. These four strategies can help you quickly turn a vague or uninspiring draft into clear and effective writing.

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.

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