Writing
Proposal Planning and Writing for RFPs
Write Great Proposals to Win U.S. Government Contracts “Proposal Planning and Writing for RFPs” is a 51-page (8.5” x 11”) comprehensive volume describing in over 10,000 words every aspect of responding to a government RFP (Request For Proposal). This e-book even covers the questions that need to be asked to decide whether an RFP is…
Read MoreAP Associated Press Style Guide Quiz Book
150 Questions with Answers to Test your AP Guide Knowledge Learn how to Write the Time, the Seasons, and the Dates Correctly in AP Style This special quiz workbook is prepared to test your knowledge of the AP Stylebook and its principles. It’ll help you learn and master many conventions of the AP style easily…
Read More100 Active Voice and Passive Voice Exercises with Answers
Active voice is that sentence construction where a SUBJECT is followed by a VERB and then the OBJECT of action. SUBJECT + VERB + OBJECT Example: “Mary loves books.” Passive voice is constructed by starting the sentence with the OBJECT of the ACTIVE voice sentence (which in passive construction is called the SUBJECT of the…
Read MoreWriting Transition Phrases and Sentences
12 Types of Transition with 112 Examples Why Transitions are Important… Transitioning from one sentence or paragraph to another is the bread and butter of all successful writers, especially those who write non-fiction. With a great transition, the readers are able to understand the succession of complex ideas as well as the general context of…
Read MoreWhat’s a Font, Font Family, Typeface, Font-Face?
Sound knowledge of fonts is a must for any self-publishing writer. In about fifteen or twenty years that may not be as crucial as it is today if and when the communication field makes a wholesale shift to “structured authoring” in which the writers may lose control over how their “content” will be formatted and…
Read MoreEliminate “Necessary” and “Unnecessary” for Better Communication in Writing
Get rid of these two major sources of uncertainty and ambiguity for better communication and to become a better writer… I forgot the number of times in private and corporate communications that I came across expressions, directions, or statements that went something like this: “All unnecessary travel requests should be postponed until further notice.” Even…
Read MoreThe Politics of Plain Writing vs. Obfuscation — A Textual Analysis
Usually people don’t write in plain English because they don’t know any better. Sometimes a banker, an engineer, a doctor will write a business letter or a technical document in a way that he or she best knows how – by using jargon and long-winded sentences; clauses awash in passive voice and nonparallel construction, with…
Read More7 Indispensable Factors that Helped Me Become a Better Writer
Sebastian Leon Prado at Unsplash 1) Reading Reading from early ages on is what gave me the desire to write in the first place. I started with reading the novels that I found in my late uncle’s home library. Then I started to read anything I could get my hands on, including encyclopedias (which was…
Read More5 Great Books on Writing that all Writers Should Read
Here are the best 5 books that helped me in my writing career: (1) THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE by Strunk and White. No doubt about it. It’s the BIBLE of good plain writing and you can read it in just a few hours. If you still haven’t read it, read it before you move on to anything…
Read MoreEnglish Grammar – Should I Use "I" or "Me"?
Sometimes people are confused whether to use “me” or “I” in a sentence. For example, which is correct: “Me and Jimmy watched a movie”… or “I and Jimmy watched a movie”? First off, it always sounds better if you cite the other person FIRST, as in “Jimmy and me…” or “Jimmy and I…” A Method…
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