“I coulda been a contender!” While this plaintive cry worked well for Marlon Brando in “On the Waterfront”, it falls flat in business writing. Careful writers cringe when they see sentences like If I would of known they were good prospects, I would of tried harder. I should of known he was a rascal. I could […]
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To write clearly, we need to avoid hedging phrases like “I wanted to…” or “I’d like to…” Learn how to ditch the hedges and make your point.
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If Abraham Lincoln had used Grammarly when he wrote the Gettysburg Address, he might have doubted himself. Running his text through the grammar checker, he would have received suggestions like: Would Grammarly’s ideas have yielded a tighter, more concise document? Probably. Would that document still be remembered 150 years later? Probably not. Because the things
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“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” How to manage our unintentional communication.
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“Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.” Here are a few ways to overcome writer’s block easily.
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