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Tip
#289: Do not use percentages alone...
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Tip # 289: Do not
use percentages alone to get a point across. For example:
Difficult to
understand: Your
pension will be 4% less for each year you retire early.”
Easier to
understand: If your
pension is $1,000 a month, which means you will get only $800 a
month if you retire five years early.
(Adapted from Anne Black,
“New Era of Benefits Communication”).
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Which of the
following is correct: “Hold
on to the past” or “Hold onto the past”? Please explain.
“The great dividing line between success
and failure can be expressed in five words: ’I did not have time.’”
(Franklin Field)
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Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to
Punctuation, author, Lynne Truss |
The
Everything Resume Book by Steven Graber |
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Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
, by William Knowlton Zinsser |
The
Gregg Reference Manual, by William A. Sabin |
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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) |
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