Apr 17 2008

50 “Must Know” Writing Tips

Published by Steve Osborne

50 “Must Know” Writing Tips … for the Real World
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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:

  1. I or Me?
  2. Well Written or Well-Written?
  3. The Overused “That”
  4. Only One Space Between Sentences
  5. “Where’s the Meeting At?”
  6. Titles and Egos
  7. % or Percent
  8. Tricky Tech Words
  9. Subject Lines – Make Them Count
  10. Fewer or Less?
  11. Affect or Effect?
  12. The Numbers Game
  13. Do You Feel Bad or Badly?
  14. Dashes Shout. Parentheses Whisper
  15. Lunch at Midnight
  16. Perplexing Plurals
  17. Quotes Within Quotes Within Quotes
  18. Decades and Apostrophes
  19. Me, Myself and I
  20. Lie or Lay?
  21. Slippery, Slimy Semicolons
  22. Suspense in the World of Hyphens
  23. When Shorter Is Better
  24. Bullets
  25. What’s Wrong With “Got”?
  26. “At the End of the Day …”
  27. Get Action With a “Call to Action”
  28. Don’t Be an Amateur!!!
  29. One “To” Too Many
  30. Sentence Fragments – Outlaws or Allies?
  31. Don’t Ruin Your Image With Poor Writing
  32. Compliment or Complement?
  33. Proofreading Tips
  34. Write Clearly
  35. Commas Can Be Crucial
  36. “Has Got” Has Got to Go
  37. “Are You Done Yet?”
  38. The Well/Good Conundrum
  39. Further or Farther?
  40. E-Mail Etiquette
  41. First Things First
  42. Get the Order Right
  43. Think Before Hitting “Send”
  44. Metaphor, Simile or Analogy?
  45. Imply or Infer?
  46. Make Your Words Hit Like Bullets
  47. Be Consistent With Your Image
  48. Don’t Overuse Adjectives
  49. “Have” – Not “Of”
  50. He Said … She Said

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