Fat Free Business Writing
About the authors
 How is it that we have trouble with words? After all,
most of us have been talking since we were a year or two
old, and we've been writing since grade school. The
trouble is that the more responsibility we're given at the
office, the more we're expected to conform to the rules
of proper usage.
Yet English ain't an easy language to learn. As writer
Bill Bryson put it, "English is a merry confusion of quirks
and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with
logic and common sense."
"This is a language where cleave can mean to cut in
half or to hold two halves together; where the simple
word set has 126 meanings as a verb, 58 as a noun and
10 as a participial adjective; where if you run fast you are
moving swiftly, but if you are stuck fast you are not
moving at all."
This book will help you avoid mistakes, write more
lucidly — and at the same time, get across what you wish
to say quickly and clearly.
If you have ever wondered whether to use bad or badly,
who or whom, or many other words, this book can help
you.
Fat-Free Writing in the Electronic Age is a little book
about big mistakes that are commonly made in business
correspondence.
In only a few minutes, you can improve your writing by
reading the wrong and right examples of words you may
misuse, or learn to avoid errors you may make in
punctuation, capitalization, spelling and use of clichés. You can pull this book from the shelf and use it to cut the fat from your
email, faxes, memos, letters and proposals by reading how to
eliminate such wordy expressions as "due to the fact that" when
"because" is quicker and easier to understand.
Take our advice, and your letters and memos will be clearer, more
to-the-point and shorter. We assure you that your boss, and your
boss's boss, will appreciate that.
Fat-Free Writing in the Electronic Age does not attempt to cover
the spectrum of grammar and English usage. We've selected only
the most common mistakes that will cause you embarrassment in
your business communication. And we've organized our advice to
make it easy to find the answer you're looking for.
You never again need to feel bad (not badly) because you will learn to
recognize errors that even your grammar and spell checkers may miss.
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