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How to Use Outlining in Word to Organize Content
Outline View in Microsoft Word can save your life, or at least your sanity when you use it to organize the headings and subheadings in a multi-page business document.
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Identifying Target Audiences for Newsletters
Newsetters fall into three categories: Corporate, Consumer, and Organization. Identify appropriate content for each category that will engage readers and build loyalty.
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How to Create Compelling Newsletter Content
Readers are attracted to newsletters that engage them with compelling content that is relevant to their interests.
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Energize Business Writing With Action Verbs
Effective business writers choose action verbs to relay their message clearly, and to encourage readers to take a required action.
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Focus on Reader Action
Every document written for business purposes requires some kind of action from the reader. An effective writer identifies the action and ensures a positive response
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How to Create A Great Online Writing Portfolio
Creating the perfect writing portfolio is a must for any online writer. Here are three great options for online portfolios.
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Small Business Employee Handbook Template
Small business employee handbooks are important in running a business. This guide will show how to write an employee handbook.
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How to Keep Business Writing Positive
When you improve the tone of your business communications, you hook your reader and you get results. Learn how to replace negative words with their positive alternatives.
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Bankruptcy Can Benefit Business
Bankruptcy is often look at as something negative however; it can help struggling business achieve a positive outcome.
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How to Write a Eulogy
To write a memorable and comforting eulogy, remember to tell vivid stories, practice good eulogy etiquette, and talk about how the deceased will life on.
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Seek Out Freelance Technical Writing Jobs
Freelance technical writing is a wide-open field for writers - but what technical writing jobs are available? Are special qualifications needed for business writing?
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Free Travel Expense Report Template
Download a free expense report template here. This sample expense form for an expense report or travel voucher offers an alternative to costly expense reporting software.
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Small Business Plan Sample for Funding Requests
Download a free small business plan sample to simplify the creation of business start-up plans. Business owners can use this document to attract investors for funding.
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Help Writing a Business Plan
Using simple business planning software to create a small business marketing plan improves the ability of business owners to promote their products and services.
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Getting a Job as a Technical Writer
Like anyone else, writers have to earn enough to pay the bills... so when sifting through the "writers wanted" ads, don't overlook technical writing jobs.
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Consistent Word Use in Technical Communication
In technical writing, consistent word use reinforces understanding, helping end users complete tasks more quickly and helping technical authors update docs more easily.
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Review: Michael Stelzner's Writing White Papers
White papers are used in business to present key ideas, solutions and softly sell. Writing White Papers by Michael Stelzner explains how to write white papers.
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Tech Writers
Those longing to break into technical writing - or those wanting to employ more professional standards in their work - can go a long way by adopting these seven habits.
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How Engineer Writers Can Improve Their Writing
For many engineers the written word is the only tangible evidence of output. If engineering documents are difficult to read they will not convey the intended message.
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Review of The Well-Fed Writer
The second edition of The Well-Fed Writer by freelance commercial writer Peter Bowerman offers a step-by-step map to a lucrative career in business writing.
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How to Write a Rejection Letter
Hate having to say no? Write a polite rejection letter that does not discourage an applicant from ever applying to a company or school again.
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How to Write a Good Speech
Writing a speech can seem like a huge project, but it can be broken down into three simple steps. Use these tips on how to write a powerful speech.
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Writing Effective Complaint Letters
Using a complaint letter template and online writing tools to convey a negative experience to a company in a positive, constructive way produces better results.
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Using Wikipedia as a Reliable Reference
There's no sense resisting Wikipedia. It's becoming the planetary encyclopedia - and it's better than the old one. Everyone uses it, so why pretend otherwise?
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Web vs. Print Writing
Writing instructions is a common duty of technical writers. Here are a few tips on writing concise and clear instructions for technical publications--for web and print.
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Tips for Effective Business Communication
How we communicate is as important, if not more so, than what we communicate. Learn easy tools for effective communication in the workplace.
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How to Give a Great Speech
Giving a speech causes emotional and physical distress for many people. With practice, anyone can improve his or her speaking skills
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Online Marketing Tool: Writing a Newsletter
A newsletter sent by email is a very effective online marketing tool. Used in the right way, it can help companies get more customers and increase brand awareness.
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The A-B-C Approach to Better Business Writing
The most effective business writing is active, bold, and concise. Paying attention to these three elements helps ensure understanding... and results.
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The Simple Way to Better Business Writing
With business writing, less is definitely more: less verbiage and corporate jargon will bring more clarity to the message - and help achieve the desired results faster.
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Think First for Better Business Writing
For business correspondence that gets results, think carefully about what needs to be said and how it needs to be said before putting pen to paper or fingers to keyboard.
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Delivering User Documentation
After writing and editing a document, the next and most important part is to deliver the product.
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Table of Contents and Indexes
Table of Contents and Indexes are a source of presenting the structure of documents. Indexes organize information into keywords for reference to the documents' topics.
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Technical Writing Checklists
Checklists enable technical writers to verify that their documents comply with standards and are consistent and complete.
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Types of Software Documentation
Software documentation includes various kinds of documents categorizing them in Requirements, Architecture, Technical, User and Marketing fields.
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How to Write for an Audience
Writing involves a three-way transaction between writer, reader, and text. Use "Aristotle's Rhetorical Triangle" to analyze these relationships in the pre-writing stage.
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How to Write a Good Creative Brief
Before any creative work starts, any time spend getting the brief right, will pay dividends later, and cut down time wasted on unnecessary work.
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How to Write an Effective White Paper
Often a person has a specific issue, position or product he or she wants to promote. The best way to inform others is to prepare a white paper on the subject matter.
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Writing the User Documentation
After the writer has planned for the user documentation, it is time for structuring and writing the user manual.
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Planning the User Documentation
Planning is the most important part of user documentation before structuring and writing it.
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How To Write A Lab Report
Many students find themselves asked to write up reports on lab experiments and have no idea what is expected in a good paper. The answer is in English, not science.
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Technical Writing
Some basic tips for improving lab reports, research papers, and book reports by understanding them as the technical writing they are.
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DITA- CMS From OASIS and IBM
An introduction to DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) and the impact that it has on Content Management Systems (CMS) and document management and production.
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Online Help Systems
Online Help Systems are the best way to access the information while working on any kind of computer software or website.
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The Learning Curve Explained
The term "learning curve" means different things to different people. Which meaning is correct?
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Creative User-Manual Templates
Users enjoy products that have user-friendly and attractive user manuals.
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List of Business Letter Salutations
Professionals must select business letter salutations based on who will receive their letters and e-mails. Choosing the right closing salutation is essential for success.
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Quick Tips in Managing Development Artifacts
Avoid duplication of efforts in the refinement of specifications and ERDs with a defined process, or perhaps a new tool, that works for your team.
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How to Write a Complaint Letter
Easy to follow tips on how to write a complaint letter (sometimes called a claim letter) that gets results, whether for a refund, a repair or an apology.
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How to be a Well-Fed Writer in a Slow Economy
During an economic downturn, writers often find themselves out of work. Author Peter Bowerman shares his secrets to staying "well-fed" even at the worst of times.
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