Sharpening Your Writing Skills

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The complete handbook (PDF 3,588 KB)
Cover (PDF 52 KB)
Title page (PDF 417 KB)
Table of Contents (PDF 38 KB)
Introduction (PDF 37 KB)
Chapter 1, Good Business Writing Style (PDF 76 KB)
Chapter 2, Planning to Write (PDF 511 KB)
Chapter 3, Writing Strategies (PDF 514 KB)
Chapter 4, Words and Sentences (PDF 240 KB)
Chapter 5, 20 Rules of Plain English (PDF 683 KB)
Chapter 6, Punctuation Matters (PDF 768 KB)
Chapter 7, Designing Effective Pages (PDF 180 KB)
App 1, Answers to Exercises (PDF 59 KB)
App 2, Writing Styleguide (PDF 75 KB)
App 3, Dictionary of Plain English (PDF 55 KB)
About the Author (PDF 375 KB)