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To accurately measure employee business writing, it is critical to link the business goals of the employee's key documents to specific writing attributes. "Better report writing"  or "more clear email" is too vague and impossible to measure. Instead, approach it more strategically. Define the goals of the documents, and assess the sub-skills required for these typical documents and if these sub-skills support the overall document goals.

Social media is here to stay. No longer is the support for this coming only from techies, teens, and social media consultants. Forbes, Financial Times, Business Week and the NY Times even concur that in 2012, the mainstreamification of social media in business became official.

This article illustrates a simple rhetorical strategy, to apply at the sentence level, to increase your readers’ perception of your executive ability. This is a very useful strategy for all executive writing, but it is particulary important when writing an executive summary.

I'd like to conclude this year with information about the importance of specific conclusions in your business email writing.

This one paragraph contains a business writing error. Find and correct it.

CopyBlogger recently published a helpful infographic on common grammar errors. It provides a quick review and clarification I think you'll find helpful.

This edition of The Friday Five - Business Writing Headlines presents:

This post is part of Blog Action Day. For the fifth time, on October 15, bloggers around the world write on a common theme to focus attention from thousands of perspectives. This year's focus is the power of we. The power of we is a concept that is front and center in business writing, so I'm very pleased to support this effort. 

"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall." -F. Scott Fitzgerald

This edition of The Friday Five - Business Writing Headlines presents: