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Ultimate Guide to Business Writing
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Ultimate Guide to Business Writing

by Julian Maynard-Smith
March 2021
Beginner
200 pages
5h 25m
English
Routledge
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Index

  • a instead of an 140

  • abbreviations: apostrophes and 131

    • capitalisation and 147

    • difference between acronyms and initialisms 131, 147

    • glossary entries for 155

    • Latin abbreviations 139

    • missing or repeating words after 139

  • abstract v concrete nouns 52, 106

  • acronyms and initialisms see abbreviations

  • active v passive 47–49

  • adapting v cloning v creating from scratch 11–12

  • adjectives and adverbs: clichéd 74–75

    • imprecise nouns 75

    • imprecise verbs 75–76

    • redundancy 73–74

  • adverbs ending in -ly 121

  • AIDA (attention, interest, desire, action) 36

  • align left, preferring over justification 18

  • alleys (gaps between columns) 18

  • allows/enables, words to avoid 56

  • ambiguity: negatives and 59–60

    • syntactic ambiguity 53

  • ampersands (&) 132

  • amphiboly/amphibology ...

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