Tip
1: Get rid of loose, baggy sentences. How? Omit needless
words and prepositional phrases. Avoid weak verbs such as am, are, is, was, and being and bland verbs such as
have,
exist,
and believe. Any time you can shorten a sentence,
do it.
Tip
2: As a rule, commas and periods go inside quotation marks. Semicolons and
colons go outside.
Tip
3: When a compound modifier contains an adverb that ends in -ly, the two words
are never hyphenated. A really cool car
... A hotly contested issue
...
Tip
4: Don’t capitalize words such as “company,” “client,” “customer,” and “Business.” You
send the reader a signal that you don’t know the basics of English grammar.
Tip
5: Remember that you capitalize titles that precede names and lower case titles
that follow names.
Ex:
Senior Vice President James Atkins ... James Atkins, senior vice president ... If
egos demand that their titles be capitalized, always put the title before the
name.
