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Writing for business.

Questions about writing for business. Emails, brochures, catalogs. Correspondence with clients, coworkers, subordinates, bosses. Technical papers. Instructional manuals.

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Does this FAQ accurately convey the mission of DIY.SE?

The DIY stack exchange is currently trying to make our FAQ more useful to new users, and I wondered if some folks from this community could take a look and help us to define ourselves better. This is the suggested rewrite of the FAQ. Here is the…
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Generalize or specialize?

If you are starting a freelance product description writing business, do you generalize or specialize? In other words, do you offer writing in an area like "product descriptions for tech companies" or does that limit business too much?
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Is it standard practice to note late arrival of a board member in minutes?

In the board meeting of a company, is it customary to note in minutes if a board member arrived late? Is there any difference between someone coming a minute late, and another coming five minutes late? How about someone leaving early? What are…
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How to Become an Powerful and Beautiful Expository Writer?

I'm a terrible writer. I know I am and it's totally ok though. Well, it's not totally ok but I have no other choice to deal with it till I die. I'm a little embarrassed by it but what can you do? It might be due to the fact that I'm slightly…
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how can I learn to speak formal English that people speak in corporate sector?

I was listening to Kamla Harris interviewing Brett Kavanaugh. She says the following to Chuck Grassley : Mr. Chairman, I would like to be recognized to ask a question before we proceed. I have seen people in the corporate and business sector…
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What is the difference between memo writing and business letter writing?

What is the difference between memo writing and business letter writing? Memo and business letters both are informal reports, so what is the main difference?
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How do I start a business-presentation?

How do you welcome a business audience to your presentation? I've thought of: Hello, my name is [prename] [surname] and I am going to talk about [...] but it sounds rather like a school presentation and not like a business presentation. Or isn't…
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Does it look unprofessional to have my name and all the titles of my website in lower-case?

I'm planning to have all the titles of my website in lowercase, as shown in the picture: I did it to fit the design of the black circle in the top left (Yeah stupid I know, just a designer's obsession for perfection). I would like to know it it…
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Require Writers Marketplace

Can anyone please tell me a verified marketplace or community where I can find writers filtered by their experience, work for technical and health related topics?
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Removing an allocated task from someone

In the software we're developing, the user can 'allocate' a task to a person or group. Correspondingly he may also take a task away from them. What word should we use: unallocate the task or deallocate it?
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The combination of a last name prefix and honorifics

I am trying to figure out if ti is correct to write either miss de Vries or miss De Vries. I am Dutch and our rules sat it should be mevrouw(miss) De Vries if there is no first name or initials. So, it's mevrouw De Vries and mevrouw S. de…
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How do you write a "Statements addressing the Key Selection Criteria"?

So looking at This Job and under "Your Checklist" it has 3 different uploads, Cover Letter, Resume and Statements addressing the Key Selection Criteria now to my understanding the Statements addressing the Key Selection Criteria is the Cover Letter…
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