Write Like You Speak

06Oct11

Please people, let’s all write like we speak. It’s okay to use contractions. And to start sentences with “And” or “But,” because that’s what we really sound like. Yes, our English teachers told us not to do that. But this is business and marketing, not a term paper on Beowulf or Death of a Salesman. You’ll also sound stuffy and stilted if you write like your English teacher told you to. ‘Nuff said.

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