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5 Techniques to Keep Your Scientific Writing Clear and Impactful

Keep your scientific writing at the level your research deserves with our 5 impactful techniques. Learn useful writing tips from Hurley Write today
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Critical Thinking: The 4-Step Process That Great Writing Is Based On

Discover the 4-step process that great writing is based on. If you would like to learn more about critical thinking and writing, contact Hurley Write today.
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The Power of Proofreading: How to Thoroughly Ensure Your Work Is Error-Free

At Hurley Write, we know that all writers make errors in their work. Our proofreading strategies will help you edit and proofread your work like a professional.
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Practice Makes Perfect When it Comes to Writing!

Writing is a skill that can be mastered with practice. Follow these simple tips to help you practice writing daily and find out how you can improve with practice.
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Phrases that Drive Us Nuts!

What are some of the common workplace written phrases that drive you nuts? Check out what hundreds of people had to say about overused phrases in the workplace.
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Does Your Writing Project Slovenliness?

George Orwell commented that the slovenliness of written language can lead to foolish thoughts. Understand this concept and how to apply it to your writing.
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Impactful Writing: Strategies for Immediate Improvement

Transform your writing with these powerful strategies. Learn how to create more impactful writing that grabs your reader's attention and drives results.
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Is the “Auto-Correct” Generation Killing Language?

Auto-Correct can be an enormously useful tool, but is it also creating a generation that doesn't know how to spell without it? Learn more from Hurley Write.
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Shorter versus Longer Sentences

Wondering whether shorter or longer sentences can make an impact on your reader? Discover the advantages each sentence structure offers from Hurley Write.
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Can Writing be Taught?

The myth that writing is a skill that one is either "born with" or not is inherently false. Learn how to improve your writing following these simple tips today.
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Writing Effective SOPs

Creating clear and usable SOPs is an integral part of a successful quality system. Ensure your company is writing effective SOPs with our helpful writing tips.
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Lean Principles of Business Writing

Incorporating lean principles into your professional writing can save your company time. Read more about the ways to train your staff to create clearly written documents.
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Styles in Business Writing

There are 4 styles for business writing you can use to effectively communicate your message. Discover the impact style can have on your writing with Hurley Write.
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Analyzing your Audience in Professional Writing

Analyzing your audience is essential for all types of writing. Improve your company's business writing skills with customized courses from Hurley Write!
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Professional Writing Skills lead to Success and Promotion

Proofreading, language, and headings and subheadings are an essential practice to effective business communication. Learn more writing tips at Hurley Write.
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Importance of Tone in Professional Writing

Creating a proper tone in your writing will help you create a more effective document. Learn how to properly convey tone in your writing with Hurley Write.
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Steps to Concise Professional Writing

The goal of professional writing is to document concisely, using the most effective words. Follow these steps to refine your business writing skills.
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Critical Thinking Skills in Professional Writing

Master your professional writing skills through critical thinking. Discover how to effectively reach your target audience with a well-received document.
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Enhancing Your Professional Writing Skills

Effectively written documents are essential in enhancing your professionalism in the workplace. Improve your team's writing skills with Hurley Write.
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Content vs. Style – Which is most important?

One of the biggest struggles for many writers is determining what to focus on during the writing process: content or style? Discover the answer online today.
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Planning Paragraphs

Paragraphs are the building blocks of your documents. Learn how to plan out your paragraphs in order to have maximum impact on your readers. Read more on the Hurley Write Blog.
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The Cost of Undiagnosed or Misdiagnosed Writing Problems

Moreover, an organization's credibility and reputation can suffer from consistently poor communication, leading to lost opportunities and diminished trust among clients and partners.
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5 Ways to Say More in Fewer Words

If time is money, when it comes to business, wasted words are wasted dollars. When your team’s writing is long-winded, roundabout, heavy with jargon, and full of fat, useless phrases, they’re eating into someone’s profit—probably that of your business.
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The Art of Persuasion: 3 Keys to Selling Your Idea Successfully

Everything you write in the world of business is designed to persuade someone to do something or to respond in some particular way. A proposal, for example...
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Why Managers Should Invest in Writing Training

This white paper discusses the need for writing training in organizations, what managers can do to correct employee writing, and what to consider when outsourcing such training.
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Critical Questions to Ask When Writing

Critical thinking about a writing project is essential to a good end-product.  As we've written before, critical thinking transforms information into ideas and solutions. But to be successful in that endeavor...
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The Most Common Grammatical Errors – and Why They’re Not All Errors

Are there specific grammatical errors that plague writers more often than others? That’s a question a pair of researchers wanted to answer, so they evaluated the writing in over...
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How Critical Thinking in Writing Works: Understanding its Role in the Writing Process

When writers fail to think critically about their writing projects, documents can easily fall flat as tepid and unpersuasive, generating little to no impact on the reader.  Worse, ineffective writing might leave readers thinking that writers don't know what they’re talking about...
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10 Quick Tips to Improve your Writing

Many writers don’t take much time to plan; in fact, many simply begin writing, believing that their first draft will become their final draft with just a little “cleaning up” and reorganization.
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How to Align your Branding Across All Your Communications

Communication skills are vital to effective company branding. We discussed this idea in our white paper, "Beef up your communication skills to strengthen your business brand." By cultivating a specific impression...
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Beef Up your Team’s Communication Skills to Strengthen Your Business Brand

Building a clear and effective business brand is critical in today's world. People are bombarded by a continuous stream of information that saps attention and crowds out any individual communication with ceaseless noise.
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Writing skills:

The Cost of Undiagnosed or Misdiagnosed Writing Problems

Moreover, an organization's credibility and reputation can suffer from consistently poor communication, leading to lost opportunities and diminished trust among clients and partners.
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3 minutes read

5 Ways to Say More in Fewer Words

If time is money, when it comes to business, wasted words are wasted dollars. When your team’s writing is long-winded, roundabout, heavy with jargon, and full of fat, useless phrases, they’re eating into someone’s profit—probably that of your business.
Read more
4 minutes read

The Art of Persuasion: 3 Keys to Selling Your Idea Successfully

Everything you write in the world of business is designed to persuade someone to do something or to respond in some particular way. A proposal, for example...
Read more
4 minutes read

Why Managers Should Invest in Writing Training

This white paper discusses the need for writing training in organizations, what managers can do to correct employee writing, and what to consider when outsourcing such training.
Read more
7 minutes read

Critical Questions to Ask When Writing

Critical thinking about a writing project is essential to a good end-product.  As we've written before, critical thinking transforms information into ideas and solutions. But to be successful in that endeavor...
Read more
4 minutes read

The Most Common Grammatical Errors – and Why They’re Not All Errors

Are there specific grammatical errors that plague writers more often than others? That’s a question a pair of researchers wanted to answer, so they evaluated the writing in over...
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3 minutes read

How Critical Thinking in Writing Works: Understanding its Role in the Writing Process

When writers fail to think critically about their writing projects, documents can easily fall flat as tepid and unpersuasive, generating little to no impact on the reader.  Worse, ineffective writing might leave readers thinking that writers don't know what they’re talking about...
Read more
5 minutes read

10 Quick Tips to Improve your Writing

Many writers don’t take much time to plan; in fact, many simply begin writing, believing that their first draft will become their final draft with just a little “cleaning up” and reorganization.
Read more
5 minutes read

How to Align your Branding Across All Your Communications

Communication skills are vital to effective company branding. We discussed this idea in our white paper, "Beef up your communication skills to strengthen your business brand." By cultivating a specific impression...
Read more
4 minutes read

Beef Up your Team’s Communication Skills to Strengthen Your Business Brand

Building a clear and effective business brand is critical in today's world. People are bombarded by a continuous stream of information that saps attention and crowds out any individual communication with ceaseless noise.
Read more
3 minutes read

Leterature:

The Cost of Undiagnosed or Misdiagnosed Writing Problems

Moreover, an organization's credibility and reputation can suffer from consistently poor communication, leading to lost opportunities and diminished trust among clients and partners.
Read more
3 minutes read

5 Ways to Say More in Fewer Words

If time is money, when it comes to business, wasted words are wasted dollars. When your team’s writing is long-winded, roundabout, heavy with jargon, and full of fat, useless phrases, they’re eating into someone’s profit—probably that of your business.
Read more
4 minutes read

The Art of Persuasion: 3 Keys to Selling Your Idea Successfully

Everything you write in the world of business is designed to persuade someone to do something or to respond in some particular way. A proposal, for example...
Read more
4 minutes read

Why Managers Should Invest in Writing Training

This white paper discusses the need for writing training in organizations, what managers can do to correct employee writing, and what to consider when outsourcing such training.
Read more
7 minutes read

Critical Questions to Ask When Writing

Critical thinking about a writing project is essential to a good end-product.  As we've written before, critical thinking transforms information into ideas and solutions. But to be successful in that endeavor...
Read more
4 minutes read

The Most Common Grammatical Errors – and Why They’re Not All Errors

Are there specific grammatical errors that plague writers more often than others? That’s a question a pair of researchers wanted to answer, so they evaluated the writing in over...
Read more
3 minutes read

How Critical Thinking in Writing Works: Understanding its Role in the Writing Process

When writers fail to think critically about their writing projects, documents can easily fall flat as tepid and unpersuasive, generating little to no impact on the reader.  Worse, ineffective writing might leave readers thinking that writers don't know what they’re talking about...
Read more
5 minutes read

10 Quick Tips to Improve your Writing

Many writers don’t take much time to plan; in fact, many simply begin writing, believing that their first draft will become their final draft with just a little “cleaning up” and reorganization.
Read more
5 minutes read

How to Align your Branding Across All Your Communications

Communication skills are vital to effective company branding. We discussed this idea in our white paper, "Beef up your communication skills to strengthen your business brand." By cultivating a specific impression...
Read more
4 minutes read

Beef Up your Team’s Communication Skills to Strengthen Your Business Brand

Building a clear and effective business brand is critical in today's world. People are bombarded by a continuous stream of information that saps attention and crowds out any individual communication with ceaseless noise.
Read more
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