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Posted by: Jacob Funnell
04 / 11 / 16
Two of the most commonly confused words in the English language are ‘stationary‘ and ‘stationery‘. It may come as a surprise that they are separate words, but they are different – ‘stationary’ and ‘stationery’ mean entirely different things, even though they happen to be spelled in a very similar way. So what’s the difference? And, more importantly, […]
Posted by: Rob Ashton
18 / 10 / 16
Tables are a staple of many business documents – from management accounts to a marketing plan or an activity update. And most people know how to create a table in Word. What you may not know is how easily you can take your tables from basic (and boring) to impressive and eye-catching. Transform your tables […]
Posted by: Catie Holdridge
29 / 09 / 16
What’s one thing you can do to transform everything you write at work? In fact, not just what you write: what your colleagues write too – even everyone in your entire organisation. Better still, as well as improving the emails, reports, letters, proposals and other documents you all produce, it can overhaul everyone’s experience of […]
14 / 09 / 16
Like it or not, we all end up getting thrown into arguments about whether something we’ve written is ‘correct’. This could be a colleague picking you up on your apostrophes. Or it might be a subtle point of style that your manager crosses out with angry red pen. It may just be a snide Facebook […]
16 / 08 / 16
A colleague gives you a report (or letter or proposal …), asking for your feedback. It’s now suddenly on you to make their document great. Maybe you’re a team leader, who has final sign-off on everything your colleague writes. Or you might just be asked by a friend at work who’s stuck and desperately needs […]
11 / 08 / 16
The active voice gets a hero’s welcome from most writing guides, which tend to demonise the passive voice as the root of all grammatical evil. Yet the passive voice does have its defenders, who accuse the first group of oversimplifying matters. Generally, the active voice is the way to go. But Team Passive do have […]
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