Writing Winning Business Proposals, Third Edition, 3rd Edition

APPENDIX EA Few Comments About Writing Effective Sentences (and Paragraphs)

This chapter isn’t at all about how to write correct sentences—about avoiding misplaced modifiers, dangling participles, run-on sentences, superfluous commas, or comma splices. And it’s far less than comprehensive in discussing effective sentences, so you won’t find topics like sentence variety, subordination, and emphasis. What you will find is a few reasonably brief comments about strategies you can use and problems you can avoid when writing proposals.

If you want more information (either about writing correct sentences or effective ones), consult an English handbook, which most people find as enjoyable as memorizing a telephone directory, though considerably more ...