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Friday, April 2, 2010
While it may seem that all business communication is being done electronically today, hard-copy letters are still an important p..
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
Linda, an UpWrite Press eTips subscriber from the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association, sent us this question: Do you have any ..
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Friday, February 12, 2010
Some might argue we live in a fragmented society, especially when it comes to writing. We tweet, we text, we reduce sentences to..
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Friday, January 15, 2010
Our language consists of "important" words (nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs), and "lesser" w..
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Friday, January 1, 2010
When you revise and edit a sales proposal, you can't check everything at once. Instead, look at your work one trait at a time.
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Friday, December 18, 2009
Last time we talked about how to handle prewriting of proposals. Once you have your ideas set out, it's time to write your draf..
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Thursday, December 3, 2009
This week, we're beginning a series of articles on using the writing process to create winning proposals. Today, let's look at h..
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Saturday, November 21, 2009
Modifiers add color and interest to your writing, and a well-chosen descriptive word or phrase can create a precise picture of w..
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
Unparallel construction is a very common stylistic error that is relatively easy to correct. To create parallelism in a sentence..
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Saturday, October 24, 2009
Once upon a time, in the days of typewriters, a dash was a dash and a hyphen was a hyphen, and they both knew their place. A sim..
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Saturday, October 10, 2009
Quotation marks have several clear functions. They're used
to set off certain titles when these appear in written text;
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Saturday, September 26, 2009
Sentences may be arranged in four basic ways, each creating a different emphasis.
The loose sentence places the main poin..
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Friday, September 11, 2009
The way you construct sentences makes a big difference in your communication. Here are the four types of sentences:
The ..
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Friday, August 28, 2009
Verbs are the words that give your nouns something to do. But just because they move things along doesn't mean all verbs are exc..
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Friday, August 14, 2009
We all learned in school that nouns name people, places, and things. In addition, they can be divided by class - proper, common,..
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