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How to Write Clear, Concise, and Simple Sentences that Readers Love!
(Free E-Book)To write accurately for general readers and trade professionals, you must not only use words that they will understand and appreciate, but also words that will carry
precisely your meaning.
Our free eBook, "How to Write
Clear,
Concise, and
Simple Sentences that (General) Readers Love!" will teach you how to write for both
general readers and
trade professionals. We provide many "before" and "after" examples and lots of practical, time-proven advice on improving your writing.
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How to Write Clear, Readable, Effective Sentences that Readers Love!
(Free E-Book)Success in writing any type of formal correspondence for either business or for the general public depends on the ability to write clear-cut, effective sentences. Without this ability you fail to achieve the primary purpose of a message—i.e., to convey your thoughts in a manner that the reader easily understands them. Follow our advice and review our many examples. By the time you have finished our ebook, you will notice an immediate improvement in how you construct, review and revise sentences.
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Writing Website Content in Plain English
(Free E-Book)Our free eBook, "Writing Website Copy in Plain English" shows you how to choose words and phrases carefully to capture your readers' attention and make your website easy to navigate to find information. The Internet is the most powerful tool. Using online content can drive many people to check your site. With easy-to-read content and navigation, you will attract consumers in a much-wider market.
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Plain English Writing Handbook : Learn How to Write Clear, Concise and Reader-Friendly Copy
(Free E-Book)Our free eBook, "Plain English Writing Handbook: Learn How to Write Clear, Concise and Reader-Friendly Copy" gives you practical tips on how to create plain English documents. All of these were born of experience. They come from experts and those who have already written or rewritten their documents in plain English. You will learn how to write in plain English by using everyday words, short sentences, active voice, regular print, and personal pronouns that speak directly to the reader.
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The Book of Gobbledygook: Plain English Writing for Lousy Writers
(Free E-Book)If writers in government, big business, organizations and educated professionals are to succeed in these times of new technologies, new demands and new attitudes, we must improve our communications radically. We must abandon soggy formality and incoherence in favor of modern personal communications. Our free eBook, "The Book of Gobbledygook: Plain English Writing for Lousy Writers" paves the way of writing clear and concise copy in 16 critical essays.
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How to Write with Clarity
(Free E-Book)"How to Write with Clarity" shows you how to eliminate ambiguity from your writing so your readers understand clearly what you are communicating. Writing with clarity is more than using simple, age-specific words for your readers. The misuse of a single word or improper placement of a word could alter the meaning of a sentence or emphasize the wrong part of sentence, thus confusing your reader. Our free ebook helps you to detect ambiguity in your writing and how to write with proper sentence structure.
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The Complete Guide to English Capitalization
(Free E-Book)"The Complete Guide to Capitalization" details correct usage and common errors in English capitalization. Correct English capitalization is important in writing. If you are writing on the Internet, writing a thesis, or writing on behalf of your job, using the proper mechanics of writing shows that you are educated and you pay attention to details. An individual who lacks knowledge on how to use capitalization in written communications comes across as sloppy and uneducated. Do you really want to communicate in lower-case letters only? Not unless you want to leave a negative impression of yourself. Our free eBook will teach you everything about capitalization.
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The Complete Guide to English Punctuation
(Free E-Book)"The Complete Guide to Punctuation" details correct usage and common errors in English punctuation. This free eBook addresses proper use of semicolons, colons, the dash, commas and other important punctuation marks. Although the Internet has caused a trend towards misuse of punctuation, it is essential to maintain correct and proper use of punctuation to convey the writer’s precise meaning. A misused punctuation mark can change the meaning of an entire sentence. Our ebook contains several examples for each punctuation mark.
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Help Me Write a Better (Blank)
(Free E-Book)Just about every writer needs a simple handbook to introduce or re-introduce themselves to the basics of writing different forms of copy for their bosses or for their clients. Sometimes with our massive workload, we simply cannot remember how to write a specific type of document, and we need something to get us started. Our free ebook, "Help Me Write a Better ... (Insert Here)" introduces you to many popular forms of copy and you will learn how to write a specific document a lot better -- and a lot faster. We break down each writing style into three or four specific steps and condense the most valuable information that shows you how to write the document.
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The Lousy Writer's Guide to Writing Sales Letters
(Free E-Book)Does your sales copy suck? I mean, does it really, really suck so bad that you can barely squeeze out a sale and help your client increase sales of his service or product? If it does, don’t worry – this is why you're here, and you'll be happy to hear that you can fix these problems. All you have to do is follow the easy to follow methods and techniques outlined in our free e-book, "
The Lousy Writer's Guide to Writing Sales Letters" and your clients' visitors will go from suspicious readers to trusting, eager-to-buy customers at the blink of an eye.
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The Lousy Writer's Guide to Writing Persuasively
(Free E-Book)Marketing expert Janice Jacobs has published a free ebook, entitled, The Lousy Writer's Guide to Writing Persuasively. Inside, readers learn how to write persuasive promotional copy to convert browsers into buyers and boost company sales. "Writing persuasively is magical," said Jacobs. "The use of persuasive words has the power to convince readers to take action, whether it's to order your product, enlist in your services, pick up the phone, or subscribe to your newsletter."
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Writing Styles for College Students
(Free E-Book)Writing that first thesis or dissertation can be a daunting task on its own. Throw in a need for APA Style guidelines in the paper, and it can be downright intimidating for the student who has never used APA Style in the past. LousyWriter.com has published a free ebook, entitled, "Writing Styles for College Students" to help college and university students learn how to master the three most popular (and sometimes troublesome) writing styles -- APA Style, Chicago (Turabian) Style and MLA Style.
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Voice is a nebulous term in writing. It can refer to the general “feel” of the writing, or it can be used in a more technical sense. In this course, we will focus on the latter sense as we discuss active and passive voice.
Language is made up of words, which work together to form sentences, which work together to form paragraphs. In this outcome, we’ll be focusing on sentences: how they’re made and how they behave. Sentences help us to organize our ideas—to identify which items belong together and which should be separated.
