Is it possible for a company’s value to be correlated with the amount of time employees spend on job-related writing assignments? Studies show this answer is yes.
When writing isn’t considered an essential job duty, it’s often not taken seriously. Less time is spent crafting and editing documents because other tasks appear more significant.
Even in industries where writing and editing assignments...
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Writer Anne Lamott once said of her writing friends: "Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one of them does, but we do not like her very much." The truth is, all of us can benefit from giving our writing a second (or third, or fourth) pass. But where do you start when you might not even know the difference between editing and proofreading? And what about revisions?
Here's a quick...
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The term "peer review" might conjure up images of complicated academic journals, but peers can review anything for each other. Unsure how to peer review your colleagues work?When a colleague asks you to give something he or she wrote a glance, here are eight peer review tips you can use for workplace writing :
Start by finding out what s/he is trying to accomplish and who the reader is. Read the entire...
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