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The Art of Persuasive Business Writing

All good writing involves persuasion-getting the reader over to your side. You may be writing to persuade a colleague to take on a new project, writing a blog post trying to persuade people to accept a new idea, or writing persuasive advertising copy...

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The World's Greatest Cover Letter Secret Revealed

There are a few ways to write a winning cover letter but there is only one way to put yours in the top one percent of all cover letters ever written. What I'm about to share with you now will put yours in that elite group. Expert marketers have...

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Books for Writers: "The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers," by Betsy Lerner

In her lengthy career, Betsy Lerner has been an MFA student, an award-winning poet, a book editor at major publishing houses, and a literary agent. So in her wonderfully insightful book about writers and the business in which they struggle, she provi...

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Writing Is a Process

As I work with people at different stages of the writing process, I find that they're often surprised that there IS a writing process. Most often, we imagine how a "real" writer works. He sits down at his lovely, mahogany desk and gets out his p...

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Things You Might Like to Know about Copyrights

You may be under the false impression that before you can get your text published, you must "get the copyright" to your ownwritten material. You might also think that in order to get the copyright, you must "apply" for it. This is just not so. In the...

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Somebody's Distributing Your Copyright Content Illegally Know Your Facts Before You Accuse

Is someone distributing your software or other copyrightcontent illegally over the Internet? It's possible. Ithappens. If you can prove your case, you have groundsfor legal action.BUT before making yourself look foolish and creatingenemies, hav...

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In Spellchecker We Trust... Right?

In Spellchecker We Trust... Right? by: Jan Kovarik This article could have easily been titled "We Don't Need a Proofreader...right?" Businesses today are transforming printed text into computer-based documents and, well, all you have to do ...

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Writing Personal Statements - Top Tips

Writing Personal Statements - Top Tips by: Elaine WRITING THE PERSONAL STATEMENT TO GET INTO UK UNIVERSITY HOW DO YOU DO IT? And the only way to do that has been largely ignored or is unknown by most students. The failure of the vast majority of...

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How to Write Bad Poetry

How to Write Bad Poetry by: Stephen Earley Jordan, II So you’ve decided to crown yourself with a title that a million other people (just like you (yes, just like you!)) give themselves every day. Some people believe giving yourself such a titl...

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Mission Possible: Get Published with Goals, Guidance and Persistance

Mission Possible: Get Published with Goals, Guidance and Persistance by: Stephen Earley Jordan, II You send me an e-mail. You tell me you’ve written over three hundred poems since you were 16 (in your teenage angst stage). You mention the nove...

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