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Tip #465:  Problem-solving:

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Tip #465: Problem-solving:

Write down these questions and then answer them:

  1. What is going well?
  2. Why is that working?
  3. What results do I want?
  4. What is not quite right yet?
  5. What am I willing to do, and what resources do I need?

Weekly Exercise:

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This week’s quiz:

Choose the correct verb:
  1. About one in every 523 young people (have/has) been diagnosed with diabetes.
  2. The film concludes with two scenes that (leaves/leave) the door open for another installment.
  3. The child is wise beyond, and only the grace and charm of Panabaker's performance (saves/save) her.

Quote of the week:

"Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel."

 (Horace Walpole, 18th century English author)

Answers:

  1. About one in every 523 young people (has) been diagnosed with diabetes. (The subject is "one.")

  2. The film concludes with two scenes that (leave) the door open for another installment. (The subject is "scenes.")

  3. The child is wise beyond her years, and only the grace and charm of Panabaker's performance (save) her. (The subject is "grace and charm.")

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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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