Robert F. Abbott's Articles

  • Getting Started With Business Writing Courses
    Planning to improve your communication effectiveness with business writing courses

    Let me suggest that you start not with the courses themselves, but with some thinking about your specific goals
  • Power Writing Skills: What's Your Readability Score?
    We’re all familiar with the maxim that says, “That which gets measured, gets done” In the same vein, I’d like to offer another important maxim; this one falls under the heading of power writing skills
  • Persuasive Writing Techniques: Pull-Quotes
    Have you noticed, when reading magazines or newsletters, that excerpts from the article have been copied from the main body and put into a special box

    That's called a pull-quote, and it's a useful persuasive writing technique for anyone who writes -- and not just for magazine editors
  • Why Bear Stearns Matters To All Of Us
    It's tempting isn't it, to smirk at the recent Bear Stearns collapse: How the mighty have fallen After all, the people running this company were not only bankers, but Wall Street investment bankers, and everyone knows they're too proud and too arrogant, right


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