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Posted by: Rob Ashton
29 / 01 / 16
If there’s one area that unites most professionals, it’s the struggle with email. Whether it’s how to manage the daily deluge of messages in our inboxes, how to respond to them or how to write them so they don’t lead to misunderstandings, finding ways to control email (and not let it control us) is a […]
Posted by: Catie Holdridge
26 / 01 / 16
Putting people at the centre of everything you write is critical to the success of your documents and emails. (At least, it is if you want people to actually read what you write.) But what does that mean in practice, when it comes to the words and sentences you write? Well, it’s simpler than you […]
04 / 11 / 15
One of our Emphasis 360 members has emailed to ask if it’s always necessary to write a cover letter when applying for jobs or internships. Their view is that they’ve worked hard to perfect their CV (curriculum vitae – also known as a résumé) and that it should just ‘speak for itself’. I can see […]
18 / 09 / 15
There are some words that can just drag your writing down. They’re heavy and dull, and they have a nasty habit of lugging even more weight in with them. They make the person reading your writing work way too hard to understand your meaning. And, the fact is, they might not even bother. The good news is that once you get used […]
Posted by: Jacob Funnell
23 / 06 / 15
Just because someone has been writing documents for years, that doesn’t mean they’re doing it well. I wish it were that simple. The fact is that many people succeed despite their writing, not because of it. As we said in this recent post, that’s why your standard shouldn’t only be to write like everyone else […]
27 / 05 / 15
No-one ever said writing documents was easy. If you’re like a lot of people, the idea of having to put your own words to paper (or computer screen) makes you want to run and hide in the stationery cupboard. But consider this: it might not be your writing skills that are the problem. It could […]
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