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Tip #169: Here are some tips about web writing. Online copy should make it possible for readers to scan it quickly.
  • Write sentences that are short (20 words or less).
  • Limit your text to three screens.
  • Do not insert hyperlinks as endnotes in your text.
  • Limit your use of audio and graphics.
  • Edit your copy before sending it out.

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Please correct the following sentences:

  1. Sally trained herself to not hear the highway noise.
  2. Your computer was shipped to you today, you should be receiving it by Monday or Tuesday.
  3. Whose in contention for the top job?
  4. I am waiting on your report.

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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, author, Lynne Truss The Everything Resume Book by Steven Graber
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction , by William Knowlton Zinsser  The Gregg Reference Manual, by William A. Sabin 
The Elements of Style, by William Strunk, White, E. B. White  How to Take the Fog Out of Business Writing, by Robert Gunning, Richard A. Kallan (Contributor) 

More books on business writing and other business subjects  (available from Amazon.com). 


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