The Write It Well Series on Business Communication
Our books provide practical ideas, tips, tools, and guidelines for any business writing. They’ll help you write e-mail, memos, letters, reports, proposals, and any other professional document. Our books and self-study training programs will help you become more productive and achieve better results in all your business writing.
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Our Books
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Professional Writing Skills: A Write It Well Guide
This book leads you through Write It Well’s time-tested, six-step planning process for any business writing. The process will help you write business letters, memos, e-mail, and other documents that persuade and inform – clearly, concisely, and professionally. This new edition provides more tips and tools for writing better e-mail, as well as expanded sections on grammar and punctuation. The book is great for learning and for reference!
Writing Performance Reviews: A Write It Well Guide
The print book and e-book are filled with user-friendly book guidelines, tips, and tools that will help you write performance objectives, reviews, appraisals, and other performance documentation that is clear, descriptive, objective, and acceptable in today’s workplace. The book includes examples, questions, and activities to help you learn on your own, with your team, or with others in your organization.
E-Mail: A Write It Well Guide
The print book and e-book are user-friendly guides packed with information, guidelines, tips, and tools to help you communicate clearly and professionally in all your business e-mail. You’ll learn how to write clear, easy-to-read, professional messages; reduce the risks inherent in e-mail; and make optimal use of your e-mail time.
Essential Grammar
This print book and e-book are self-instructional workbooks to cover the basics of grammar and punctuation for people who write in the workplace. Faulty grammar can slow us down and diminish our credibility as business writers. The book’s job-relevant exercises increase readers’ confidence and help them present a consistently professional image in all business writing.
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Advanced Writing for Managers and Supervisors: Reports, Proposals, and Procedures
This book’s techniques and information will help you plan and write reports, proposals, procedures, and other documents. It will help you communicate complex information clearly any time you and your team need to produce a complex, multisection business document.
Develop and Deliver Powerful Presentations
This workbook explains how to deliver clear and professional presentations by identifying your audience, purpose, and main message. It also offers strategies to decide on content, format it, and enhance it with strategic visual elements.
Be Your Own Editor: Grammar and Proofreading
Sloppy grammar can badly damage a businessperson’s credibility. This book reviews the key grammar and punctuation rules necessary to maintain credibility in today’s competitive business world. It also offers proofreading strategies to keep outgoing documents free from errors.
Technical Writing
We designed this course for professionals who write technical and nontechnical documents for readers with various levels of background knowledge. The books prepares readers to produce crisp, focused specifications, technical manuals, standards, requirements, and e-mail messages.
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E-learning Module
Just Commas: A Write It Well Guide
Commas are the most frequently used punctuation marks in U.S. English, and they’re the most difficult punctuation mark to get right every time. This online e-learning module helps you master the nine most frequent uses of commas and then quiz yourself on what you read. The correct comma usage you’ll learn will help you write clearly, avoid unprofessional-looking mistakes, and create a positive impression through your business writing.
Workshops
Content Strategy and Development: Writing for Web, Social Media, and other Marketing Channels
Using real-world scenarios and examples, this Write It Well workshop provides your team with immediate, action-focused strategies to develop and improve content for any audience.
Superintendents’ Workbook
Write It Well designed a course especially for superintendents who write for work; participants use a workbook that we custom-tailor for each client. The client sends us representative documents beforehand, and we use sample sentences and paragraphs to illustrate effective writing techniques.
Individual Coaching
Our individual coaching packages last for seven weeks and use a variety of materials from the Write It Well Series on Business Communication. These packages start with an hour-long meeting in person or online, followed by six weekly online or phone meetings that last 30 minutes or more. Click here for more information.
