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7 Tips For Saying Thanks In Writing

February 25, 2010 – 2:03 pm Thank you letters are among the most important letters we will ever write. Whether business or personal, an effective thank you letter needs to be written with sincerity, tact and sensitivity. In fact, an inappropriate or poorly written thank you letter can backfire on you in ways you will never ...

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The Writing Help Top 10 For 2009

January 27, 2010 – 5:15 pm Well, last year was another record-breaker for my main writing help website, writinghelp-central.com! During 2009, more than 5 million visitors from 215 countries went to that site looking for “writing help” advice, information, tips and tricks that are included in ...

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Writing Is The Key To Your Success

January 3, 2010 – 8:27 pm It really doesn’t matter what you do or where you are going in life, one way or another, being able to write reasonably well in your primary language (English in this case) will be critical to whether you are successful or not....

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Introduction Letters Can Be Good For Business

October 26, 2009 – 5:23 pm One of the most frequently sought letter types by people who come to my writing help websites is the “introduction letter” or “letter of introduction”. Similar to the confusion  with a few other letter types that I have already ...

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Are You Writing A Recommendation Letter Or A Reference Letter?

September 27, 2009 – 8:52 pm Based on my observations over the years, there has always been a great deal of confusion about the differences and similarities between recommendation letters and reference letters. For instance, which is which, and when to use which one? This is ...

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If You Can’t Write It – Try Speaking it!

August 26, 2009 – 1:10 pm A lot of people are under the false impression that one has to be a “real writer” in order to create content for their websites, blogs, newsletters, etc. That is simply not true. In fact, in some cases ...

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The Dying Art of Personal Letter Writing

July 26, 2009 – 7:28 pm According to an article I just read, traditional letters are being gradually replaced by the newer electronic ways of communicating such as e-mail, e-messaging, texting, and faxes, as well as by cheap long distance telephone and ...

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Letter Writing For Hard Financial Times…

June 25, 2009 – 4:22 pm A couple of years ago I noticed that more and more people were arriving at my writing help websites looking for info on how to write something they called a “financial hardship letter”. This was something ...

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Resume Cover Letters – 9 Essential Writing Tips

May 27, 2009 – 1:42 pm Resume cover letters are used for one purpose only -- to convey a resume or curriculum vitae to a prospective employer. The most common mistake I see in cover letters that are sent to me for editing ...

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How To Format Business and Personal Letters

April 27, 2009 – 1:02 pm Out of the hundreds of pages of “writing help” content on my main Writing Help Central website, two of the top 10 most visited pages are related to formatting business and personal letters. It seems that even when people ...

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