A Friendly Reminder: Blind Carbon Copy
BCC: Blind to You, But not to Me Have you ever wondered what the ‘Bcc’ box in your email means? It works the same way as Cc but with a...
CHAT-GPT: THE MIRACLE AI TOOL THAT NEEDS SUPERVISION
If you are tempted to use ChatGPT for your business communications, you might want to ask the same question drug commercials urge viewers...
Proof Your Goof!
Who among us has not pressed “Send” only to find an embarrassing misspelling or grammar gaffe once it’s long gone? Here are some surefire...
How to Write a Complaint Letter
Dear Complaint Department If you have ever received a complaint letter, you know those nasty words can sting. But if you are someone who...
Keeping in Style: Why You Need a Style Guide for Your Company
Why you need one A new employee was asked to write to a longtime, highly valued client. She wrote, “Hey Bob, when are we gonna do a meet?”...
Invest In Yourself By Honing Your Writing Skills
The field of coaching C-Suite-level executives with their writing has mushroomed in recent years. That is because they understand how...
How to Boost Your Writing: Kill the Passive Voice
Passive voice gets a bad rap. And for good reason. In business writing, at least, it usually translates into a deadened tone that keeps...
Oxford Comma
Who knew that commas had names? Take the Oxford comma, for example. It’s a swanky term for a serial comma, that is, the use of two commas...
White Space: Writers Can't Live Without It
We writers don’t get enough respect. At least that’s what I thought when I wrote articles for newspapers and periodicals. The editors...
Tighten and Trim Your Business Writing
Once you complete a business writing task, you probably feel proud and even a little in love with how well it reads. But what if you went...
