Grammar Repair Shop Quiz: Test your grammar skills
Take this quiz to double-check your business writing skills. Can you spot the grammar and writing errors in the following five sentences?
Category: Writing/Editing
How to write a resolution
A resolution is a formal way of saying what your group is going to do, or what its position is. The format is: title and number, "whereas" clauses and "resolved" clauses. Here’s the protocol and some formatting tips …
Grammar Repair Shop: Two spaces or one?
Q. A question has come up in our office about the use of two spaces after a period between sentences. I was taught in my business and typing courses to use two spaces. Has the protocol changed? Is it now one space?
10 steps to better minute-taking
Taking minutes wasn’t getting any easier for Terri Michaels, even after years of practice. Finally, she enrolled in a workshop, and things changed. Now she uses these 10 best practices.
Noteworthy office etiquette: Say more than thanks
If your boss is typical, he’s looking for ways to tell the team “thanks.” Appreciation is one of the few, affordable ways to retain and motivate. Help him put sentiments down on paper with these tips:
3 cardinal rules of business writing
Light a fire under your readers and spur them to action by using these three cardinal business-writing rules:
Business writing: 7 phrases to ban
Fancy-schmancy business-speak does not make for strong business writing. With that rule in mind, an editor for HarvardBusiness.org suggests banning these words and phrases from your writing:
Grammar Repair Shop: 4 common confusions
Do you know when to use the term “complement” vs. “compliment,” “bad” vs. “badly,” “less” vs. “fewer” or “between” vs. “among”? Here’s how to use these terms properly:
1-Minute Strategies: March ’09
Pump up your managers with useful research they don’t have time to do themselves … Sharpen your workplace instincts by playing The Office-Politics Game … Soothe stress by first dividing triggers into two categories …
Grammar Repair Shop: Top 5 phrases to avoid
Which phrases and buzzwords have we so overused and mangled that we should stop using them altogether? Researchers at the University of Oxford keep track of books, magazines, online media and other sources to look for “irritating expressions” that ought to be retired.