Improve Your Business Writing with Programs and Services from Write It Well.

Improve Your Business Writing with Programs and Services from Write It Well.

Our books, e-books, e-learning modules, and training programs help people write professional-caliber email, resumes and cover letters, reports, proposals, marketing materials, performance reviews, technical documentation, and user and procedures manuals, as well as a full range of other business documents.

Our tips and strategies can help you keep your writing clear, concise, correct, and engaging. Or we can help you polish a document you've already written to make sure it represents you well before you print or send it. Let us help you use your business writing as a tool to project a professional image and get the results you need.

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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.

Learn about our facilitator kits here.

Our Books

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!

We’ve also fully updated the book in a 2012 edition for anyone who does business in Asia.

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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3 slides of the online e-learning module Just Commas

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.

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.



Blog

March 10, 2013
Social Media Lessons for Business Email Read more

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A Three-Step Process to Demonstrate Your Value Read more

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“I Won’t Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here’s Why.” Read more

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News

April 8, 2013
Webinar Recording – Write Performance Reviews the SMART Way! Read more

Natasha Terk, managing director of Write It Well, delivered a one-hour session on Writing Performance Reviews last week.  Participants loved…

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Drive Results – Free Webinar on Writing Performance Reviews for Singapore Read more
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Testimonials

The Webinar provided strong guidance for effective e-communication and
writing in general.

Jan Kearney-King
HUD

Excellent Presentation!

Christy Bedell
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

The training was great!

Patriece Paige, Management Analyst
HUD

Thank you for a fabulous workshop. I have already implemented many of the suggestions in my own e-mail correspondence, and have since recommended the book to others.

Marie Coppola
International Association of Business Communicators

Very valuable training — look forward to more.

The webinar was informative and helpful! A valuable tool to improve professionalism at work.

Jeannette Collette
St. Joseph's Hospital & Medical Center

Write It Well transformed a crucial but often overlooked topic [e-mail communication] into a lively, fascinating, and extremely useful presentation. The clarity of e-mail messages exchanged within the office has improved.

Adine Varah, Deputy City Attorney and Director of Training,
City of San Francisco

The knowledge of the presenter was excellent.

I really enjoyed the Effective E-Mail webinar and picked up some great
points.

Pat Whitaker, Financial Analyst for the Revenue Cycle
Mission Hospital Inc.

This book should be required reading for both Internet newbies and new entrants to the workplace

David Krane, Director of Corporate Communications
Google, Inc.

Your Effective Email webinar was informative and filled with immediately applicable tips. In short, it was great!

Patricia McNeal
Association of National Advertisers

The webinar was informative and timely!

Mary L. Calhoun
LA County office of Ombudsman

I enjoyed the Effective E-Mail webinar. Each time I send an e-mail, I stop and think. What you said really does work!

Ruby Pence
Cleveland County Healthcare System

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