Apr 17 2008
50 “Must Know” Writing Tips
50 “Must Know” Writing Tips … for the Real World
$7

In my years as a freelance writer and writing instructor, I have learned that there are about 50 rules and issues of writing that tend to trip people up – whether they are CEOs, mailroom clerks, college professors or high school freshmen.
This 54-page compilation of TheWritersBag.com’s first 50 rules, techniques and strategies addresses these issues. It comes with an exciting claim: If you learn these 50 tips, you can avoid roughly 95 percent of the mistakes people tend to make when writing. Plus, you will become a much more effective writer.
The tips are presented in an easy-to-understand, real-world way, avoiding the murky jargon typically used in English classes. I promise you, it won’t be difficult to learn what’s in this e-book, and once you do, you’ll never have to struggle with these issues again! That in itself is worth its weight in gold.
50 “Must Know” Writing Tips puts these important tips at your fingertips in a single, easy-to-reference manual – a “must have” resource for desks everywhere.
You Will Learn These Crucial Rules, Techniques and Strategies:
- I or Me?
- Well Written or Well-Written?
- The Overused “That”
- Only One Space Between Sentences
- “Where’s the Meeting At?”
- Titles and Egos
- % or Percent
- Tricky Tech Words
- Subject Lines – Make Them Count
- Fewer or Less?
- Affect or Effect?
- The Numbers Game
- Do You Feel Bad or Badly?
- Dashes Shout. Parentheses Whisper
- Lunch at Midnight
- Perplexing Plurals
- Quotes Within Quotes Within Quotes
- Decades and Apostrophes
- Me, Myself and I
- Lie or Lay?
- Slippery, Slimy Semicolons
- Suspense in the World of Hyphens
- When Shorter Is Better
- Bullets
- What’s Wrong With “Got”?
- “At the End of the Day …”
- Get Action With a “Call to Action”
- Don’t Be an Amateur!!!
- One “To” Too Many
- Sentence Fragments – Outlaws or Allies?
- Don’t Ruin Your Image With Poor Writing
- Compliment or Complement?
- Proofreading Tips
- Write Clearly
- Commas Can Be Crucial
- “Has Got” Has Got to Go
- “Are You Done Yet?”
- The Well/Good Conundrum
- Further or Farther?
- E-Mail Etiquette
- First Things First
- Get the Order Right
- Think Before Hitting “Send”
- Metaphor, Simile or Analogy?
- Imply or Infer?
- Make Your Words Hit Like Bullets
- Be Consistent With Your Image
- Don’t Overuse Adjectives
- “Have” – Not “Of”
- He Said … She Said
54 Pages. PDF Format. Only $7 for immediate download.






