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Mary Cullen

Mary Cullen
March 9, 2022
Mary founded Instructional Solutions in 1998, and is an internationally recognized business writing trainer and executive writing coach with two decades of experience helping thousands of individuals and businesses master the strategic skill of business writing. She excels at designing customized business writing training programs to maximize productivity, advance business objectives, and convey complex information. She holds a B.A. in English from the University of Rhode Island, an M.A. in English Literature from Boston College, and a C.A.G.S. in Composition and Rhetoric from the University of New Hampshire.
Articles By Mary Cullen

The Costs of Poor Business Writing [Statistics and Examples]

Writing is fundamental to business operations. While networking and negotiations set the foundations of corporate ...

Affect vs. Effect [What is the Difference?]

If you’ve confused affect and effect before, you’re not alone. This word pair is one of the most common errors in business ...

10 Most Searched For Words in the Thesaurus

Here is a list of the top searched words in a thesaurus in the United States. Each item has the average number of searches a ...

Writing an Executive Summary that Emotes Confidence

This article illustrates a simple rhetorical strategy, to apply at the sentence level, to increase your readers’ perception ...

Instructional Solutions Celebrates 20 Years: Here is What I Learned

I’d like to share with you why I founded Instructional Solutions 20 years ago this month and offer three tips about writing, ...

Instructional Solutions Launches Free Writing Tool to Eliminate Jargon

Writing a story? View the entire press kit here. Jargon grader launch Instructional Solutions, a leader in business writing ...

6 Advanced Grammar Mistakes

March 4th is Grammar Day and we are celebrating with a new infographic with six advanced grammar mistakes. Each year Grammar ...

Holiday Out-of-Office Email Tips [3 Copy and Paste Examples]

‘Tis the season for out-of-office emails! Yes, with all the holiday planning of feasts and gifts and decorations, there is ...

How to Use Singular They

How to Correct Pronoun Antecedent Errors

This paragraph contains an error. Find and correct it: On July 28, managers presented second-quarter sales reports. Greg ...

When To Use Time Sensitive Salutations [Etiquette Mistakes]

Two participants in our Effective Business Writing course recently questioned why using “Good Evening” was not the best ...

Technical Report Writing Course Lessons Learned

"Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you’re a writer you have a moral obligation to do this." ~ Anne ...

How to Measure Employee Writing Skills

Of the many challenges a business faces when it comes to improving the business writing skills of its employees, the biggest ...

How to Use Pronouns Correctly

This statement contains a business grammar error. Find and correct it: You want a criminal attorney who spends 100% of their ...

How A Report Writing Course Can Tame Big Data

Once upon a time, there was a warning that Big Brother could be watching. Well, today, big data is doing its job. Big data ...