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Overview: Whether you're composing an e-mail or a large report, these tips will help make the results polished and effective.

Your job focus may be very technical, but you can't completely escape the burden of writing tasks: e-mails, status reports, performance evaluations, RFPs, and system documentation, to name a few possibilities. But if your writing experience has been limited, you could probably stand to brush up on those skills--especially if you're a manager or aspiring to become one.

This list contains basic suggestions to keep in mind when you're working on a business document. It includes fundamental advice and examples such as:

  • Avoid redundancy. Many repetitive phrases can be tightened into one word. For example: history, not past history; plan, not plan ahead; result, not end result.

  • Vary your sentence structure. Mix up simple, compound, and complex sentences. Use both short and long sentences to keep your writing interesting.

  • Make company names singular. For example: Ernst & Young ordered some computers for its new office.
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