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Practicing by writing more

Practicing by writing more

From the course: Business Writing Principles

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Practicing by writing more

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- [Instructor] Practice makes perfect. Whether you want to improve your golf, yoga, cooking, or writing skills, you need to practice. Each time we practice the techniques or principles, we are reinforcing the correct process or procedures. So let's start practicing so that you can become that business writer who gets noticed. Even though the following example is only 61 words with normal average sentence links of about 20 words, it needs to be revised. At this point in time, we are in consideration of changing the holiday choices, so we are sending you this email to ask you a question. We would like to know if you prefer regularly scheduled holidays or floating holidays. You can give us your choice on the form that we've attached and send it back to us by Friday. Look at the wordy phrases. At this point in time, in consideration of, we are sending this email to ask a question, would like to know, form we have…

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