Plain Language Writing Techniques for Professionals
Plain-language techniques used by editors of memos, proposals, and disclosures. Substitution tables, layering, and a two-minute self-test.
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Plain-language techniques used by editors of memos, proposals, and disclosures. Substitution tables, layering, and a two-minute self-test.
Separate structural, line, and proof edits the way working journalists do. Checks, timings, and a worked example that trims a memo in half.
Expert guide to clear professional writing: conciseness, word choice, sentence structure, active voice, revision passes, and reading aloud with examples.
Complete guide to clear professional writing with fifteen editor-proven rules, comparison tables, revision checklists, and language patterns that respect the reader.
The he-him test, working examples, and the one rule that settles every who vs whom question. Plus the cases where whom is optional even in formal writing.
The comma rules that trip up professional writers. Oxford commas, restrictive clauses, compound sentences, and the four rules that fix 80 percent of errors.