"A compilation of 25 basic styles of blogging from award winning blogger and author of Personality Not Included, Rohit Bhargava (photo, left).

"I was walking around Seattle's Sea-Tac International Airport yesterday, waiting for my flight to Maui, when I admired a T-shirt with a clever slogan: Washington Rain Festival, Jan.

"Why should we avoid well-worn phrases and clichés?

"If my marketer misses a typo while writing about a product, I want my packaging staff to catch it before the design gets sent to print.

"I took many writing classes in college but perhaps the most useful was one focused on business writing.

"According to our internal reports, here — in no particular order — are the ten most frequent catches by our editors in your press releases: .

According to Dean Evans (photo, left), "Poorly written or edited copy will adversely affect how people view your content.

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"I don’t know about you, but nothing irks me more than reading and editing a document riddled with mistakes apparently made by a seven-year-old, only to find the author is a well accomplished executive.

The Writer's Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, features an article on the topic of writing clean, concise sentences.

"Pronunciation is the ugly sister of language teaching, coming way behind vocabulary and grammar.

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This PowerPoint presentation offers helpful tips for avoiding plagiarism when researching and writing reports.

"Words are everywhere, and many are strung together recklessly.

Andrea Wenger (photo, left) is the membership manager with the Carolina chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC).

"Writing with numbers and figures is an overlooked skill despite the fact that we often include them in our communications.

"We reached out to the Global Language Monitor, which publishes an annual list of the year's top English words, to compile a ranking of the most popular business terms.

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To ensure your thank you letter stands out from the competition after an interview, it's important to rethink how you approach writing it.

I wrote one of the most popular articles in our business writing blog, "Top Ten Irritating Phrases," in 2009.

Every writer needs a good editor, whether it's another person or an internal editor who can adequately judge, cut, and rewrite sentences.

One would think that with that many written projects under my belt, writing would come naturally to me by now.