Quick Fixes for Business Writing: An Eight-Step Editing Process to Find and Correct Common Readability ProblemsQuick fixes for business writing breaks down the editorial process into a series of tasks which are designed to improve the readability of the final product. It will be invaluable to you; regardless of whether you are a novice or a proficient editor. This book helps you to develop a systematic eight-step approach. It identifies functions that you may have been performing only intuitively. It will provide you with techniques to improve your written material. |
Contents
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SHORTEN SENTENCES | 25 |
TAKE OUT THE TRASH | 37 |
DEFLATE WORDS | 51 |
Untangle the knots | 61 |
ELIMINATE THE EQUATIONS | 89 |
LEAD WITH STRENGTH | 111 |
PARADE YOUR PARAGRAPHS | 119 |
And in conclusion | 135 |
The One Minute Editor | 137 |
Point form writing | 141 |
Punctuation Principles | 145 |
Common Editing Marks | 149 |
How to Write Worse | 151 |
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