Writamins

Writamins writing tips give you brief,
actionable insights into business writing and email effectiveness.
They have appeared every month since 1999.

Choosing the Right Word

These Writamins clarify commonly confused word pairs and clue you in to the correct forms of popular idioms. When you want to make sure you’re using the right word, look here.

In today’s world, email is business writing. The right email can seal a deal, and the wrong email can destroy a relationship. These Writamins provide immediately useful tips on using email to power up your business relationships. Read these before you hit send.

Grammar and Punctuation

People judge your intelligence and competence by your grammar and punctuation. Avoid making rookie writing errors: Follow these easy-to-read tips.

Thoughts on Writing

These Writamins cover larger writing issues such as the power of purpose, how to overcome procrastination, and the importance of rhetorical tools such as repetition.

Writing Well

Essential business writing knowledge appears in this set of Writamins. To quickly brush up on your writing skills, look here.

Writing within organizations

Organizations are minefields of murky writing, revision resentment, and communication-based productivity loss. These Writamins offer actionable tips to energize writing within an organization.

Worktalk Writamins: Fanboys Conjunctions and their Commas

What is missing from these sentences? I will not revise the draft at this point…

Worktalk Writamins: How do you use the comma correctly?

Can a comma — or the lack of a comma — trigger a lawsuit? Consider:…

Worktalk Writamins: How do hyphens work?

Driving by a bank one day, I saw a sign that read, “No Point Home…

Worktalk Writamins: How do you use the hyphen?

Driving by a bank one day, I saw a sign that read, “No Point Home…

Worktalk Writamins: Stop apostrophe abuse

What is it with people and apostrophes? Unsure of where the apostrophes are supposed to…

What is wrong with the quotation marks in these examples? “Fresh” Pizza $3.00 a Slice…

Worktalk Writamins: Shocking news about the apostrophe

Which of these is correct? They met in the ‘90s and have been friends ever…

What’s wrong with me? Both speakers and writers seem averse to correctly using this basic…

Worktalk Writamins: Eliminate Unnecessary Nouns

Quick: What is a noun? No matter where you went to elementary school, your brain…

Worktalk Writamins: Omit needless words - limit low-information phrases

“Make every word tell.”Strunk and White, The Elements of Style In preparing for a recent…

Which is more engaging?She said… or She shrieked, she whispered, she yelled, she lisped, she…

Worktalk Writamins: Responding to a complaint

Responding to a ComplaintHere is an email received by a short-term apartment rental agency:It is…

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“Several years ago, my assistant and I attended Liz Danziger’s writing workshop. I noticed an immediate improvement in my assistant’s writing.”

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Participantin Online Writing Program

Liz is a dynamic and engaging speaker who has deep insights into the writing process. I had met Liz before in an introductory session and I knew my staff could benefit from her teaching, My staff immediately started getting more responses to their emails after Liz’s course on email effectiveness. Her thoughts are so valuable and are “right-on” with respect to speaking to your audience, which is so easily overlooked in our daily “busy-ness”. I wholeheartedly recommend her to any business that is trying to improve its internal and external communication.”

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