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Business Writing for Technical People
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Business Writing for Technical People

by Carrie Marshall
July 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
84 pages
1h 32m
English
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
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5 FIGHT THE FLAB

In this chapter you will learn how to take your writing to the gym and make it leaner and punchier.

One magazine editor I spoke to shared a top tip: when you’ve written something, go back and delete the first paragraph. Nine times out of ten, the piece works better without it (yes, I deleted the first paragraph of this chapter).

That’s a good example of business writing’s biggest enemy: flab. Flab is the stuff your piece doesn’t need, and it often slips in as the result of habits picked up over the years.

One way to fight the flab in business writing is to take the same approach professional writers do when they write press releases. Press releases – good ones, anyway – are written like a pyramid, with the punchiest bit at ...

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