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In August's edition of Write Away we reveal some top tips for making the world of email less stressful for everyone, and show how placing an apostrophe in possessives can be a pain-free process. Plus, recommendations that make writing figures and numbers as easy as pie; and a link to the latest podcast. We also continue to watch over the 'green shoots' in the press.
Avoiding e-rage
It will probably come as no surprise that email regularly offends many UK workers. What may come as more of a shock is the news that it upsets only one in three people. Find out how everyone can become a calmer and more centred email user ...Rules that count
How good are you at watching your figures? These can be a crucial part of your document and the more clearly you express them, the better. We reveal our guidelines here ...In this month's Write On podcast
Grab your audience's attention with powerful press releases and discover why embarrassing typos are so hard to spot. All this and more is ready for you to download now ...Whose apostrophe?
For such a tiny punctuation mark, the apostrophe has an enormous capacity to confuse and irritate people. Master the rules of this rogue symbol once and for all ...Knowledge Bank: Lost in translation
It's amazing how many good ideas are lost in translation – not from one language to another, but from the brain to the printed page. Find out how to keep it simple by clicking here.
