Business writing can range from writing announcements, formal letters and e-mail, proposals and requests for proposal (RFP), press packets, publicity, and sales letters. Business Writing Guides help point you in the correct directions by providing instruction on how to complete specific business writing tasks. Business Style Guides further help by showing you how to adapt your writing so that it complies with what’s expected in business writing.
“Success in business relies on effective communication, which can take many forms. Understanding the particular formats needed for specific business writing tasks is the first step in achieving that necessary ability to communicate effectively.” –from The Everything Improve Your Writing Book by Pamela Rice Hahn
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Many beginning writers think that they can bend the rules or do whatever they like, and call it their “style.” As you gain writing success and get more familiar with the rules, you’re allowed certain liberties. As you become more adept at the rules, you also gain a better understanding of where you can bend them and still get away with it. So in your early days, be attentive to the way things are done, and worry about breaking the mold later. –from The Everything Improve Your Writing Book by Pamela Rice Hahn
Knowing the underlying principles of style helps you achieve consistency in your writing. Therefore, it’s important that you learn how to incorporate the correct style. (Only then can you determine when it’s okay to change it.) These style guides help you go into the depth necessary to determine the style needed for that writing.
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A professional writer since 1984, Pamela Rice Hahn is the author of more than 20 published books.