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Tip #249:  Make sure your compositions...

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Tip # 249:   Make sure your compositions:

  • Contain the right message

  • Are coherent

  • Are easy to read

  • Have variety

  • Are positive

  • Are concise

  • Emphasize important points

  • Use correct grammar, spelling, punctuation

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Correct each sentence:

  1. How quick he runs.

  2. Neither Dan nor I are to follow.

  3. Each of us were scheduled to take the test.

  4. The coach, not the players, have been ill.

  5. This phone call is for Jane and I.

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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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