Probizwriters' Education Series
Dear David,
Happy new year everyone! During the holidays I reflected on common business-writing mistakes appearing repeatedly over the last couple of years and came up with five key problems that are persistent and embarrassing. Fortunately, each is readily explained and fixed--giving your copy a professionalism boost:
- Improper punctuation of bullet lists.
- Failure to rightly use and distinguish between dashes, em dashes, and en dashes.
- Not hyphenating phrasal (compound) adjectives.
- Not knowing when to use "&" versus "and."
- Overusing or misusing "buzzwords."
To help our readers, we're presenting "how-to"l detail on each of these top-five writing problems over the coming weeks. The first installment is ready for the brave among you to dive in.
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