Bull's
Eye Business Writing Tips
Tip
#294: “Dilemma” vs. “quandary”
These
FREE weekly business writing tips
will help you improve your business writing.
Tip #294: “Dilemma” vs. “quandary”: Both words mean “ to have
difficulty deciding something.”
However, use “dilemma” when deciding between two options;
use “quandary” when deciding three or more objects or ideas.
Examples:
The dilemma was
whether to attend or not to attend the seminar.
Jim was in a
quandary over the variety of choices.
Weekly Exercise:
We receive over 200 emails per
day. We encourage you to answer our weekly tips, but please, if
you are answering this weekly tip exercise, identify the tip
number in the subject line of your email.
Reduce the
wordiness in the following sentence:
We want to call
your attention to the fact that quite a lot of our customers have
expressed their unhappiness to us about the decrease in the level
of quality of the kind of paper you’ve switched to in the
manufacture of your product.
“Flexible people never get bent out of
shape.” (Anonymous)
|
To send the
above exercise answers to Gloria for her comments and
review, copy the questions, paste them into an
email, answer them, and send to Marsha@basic-learning.com.
See this week's tip
You can always
see the FREE Weekly Business Writing Tip.
But you must be on my mailing list to receive the answers!
Please share
these FREE tips with your friends.
For those who
are first-timers, sign up by sending me an email.
|
These business writing tips brought to you
by:
Bull's Eye Business Writing 
10 Easy Guides for Getting to Your Writing Target
By Gloria
Pincu, M.A. , President of Basic
Learning Systems, Inc.
return to first page
To find out more about us:
|
Order our books, CD-ROM and online courses
today through our secure online
store.
|
|
| Here are some books on business
writing that I recommend.
Bull's Eye Business Writing is
also available from Amazon.com.
| 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). |
|
Contact Gloria
Pincu at Basic Learning Systems, Inc.
|