You can listen to my recent radio interview with Cindy Rakowitz of BR Public Relations on THE IMPORTANCE OF THE WRITTEN WORD http://bit.ly/9vJq9v. The host brings out the fact that the public education system has all but failed in preparing students to write in the real world. They don’t learn to avoid getting lost in […]
Many people were kind enough to send me examples of errors they or others had made in business writing. Here are a few examples. Unconscious Slips Embarrassment awaits those who blithely type the contents of their unconscious mind – and don’t catch themselves before they hit “send.” Someone wrote: I recently started an email by
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What a difference a prefix makes. In the highly publicized divorce case of Frank and Jamie McCourt, owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers, a high-priced attorney has admitted to changing the word “exclusive” to “inclusive” in a post nuptial agreement about the division of the couple’s assets. Did the lawyer really “miswrite”, as he stated
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My infant grandson is visiting; he has reminded me of a basic truth about business writing. He just started eating solids, so we’ve been spooning baby food into a hungry little mouth. Imagine yourself feeding sweet potatoes to a babe. You put the food on the spoon, put the spoon in the mouth and, like
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How is writing like swimming? I swim a mile several times a week, and have been doing so for years. That’s 72 laps. Every time I swim, I go about four laps and then a little voice in my head says, “I’m a little tired… maybe I shouldn’t do the full distance today… 72 laps!
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