Writing With Clarity

Turn corporate sludge into focused, compelling writing

Resources

Books, articles and websites with sound guidance to improve business writing.

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Recommended Resources for Corporate Communications

A list of resources providing excellent guidance — from avoiding buzzwords to writing great feature stories.

Recommended Resources for Business Professionals

Style guides and information for business writing that works.

Quotes from Famous Writers

Inspiration from Mark Twain, Strunk & White, and others.

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book by Ken O'Quinn, Perfect Phrases for Business Letters

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  • Writing tip: Three qualities determine sentence clarity: word simplicity, sentence structure, and punctuation. Read it aloud and listen. Us… 2012/02/21
  • Avoid using red ink when editing. It painfully reminds many adults how humiliated and discouraged they felt when trying to write in school. 2012/02/20
  • Writing tip: Employees are committed to continual improvement, not continuous, despite how you see it written. Continual means recurring; t… 2012/02/15
  • Writing tips for corp. comm. and PR folks and for all other business professionals at facebook(dot)com/WritingWithClarity. 2012/01/25
  • Comma Uncertainty: When to Use it Before "Because" 2012/01/24