How Not to Write

How Not to Write

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In a fast-paced workplace, where emails fly at lightning speed, precision and brevity are essential for good communication. But all too often we let spell-checkers do the dirty work—because many of us have forgotten the simple grammar rules we learned in school.

In How Not to Write, Terence Denman, instructor with the U.K.-based Plain English Campaign, sets out the top 10...more
Hardcover, 160 pages
Published July 1st 2005 by Quirk Books
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Dione Sage
Grammar is often taken for granted in today's society so I rather enjoyed this book. I also was reminded of a few of my own daily errors in which I overlook quite a bit.
Kevin Heywood
The book of the Plain English course. Great book.
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