Knowledge bank: essential writing tips

The best writing advice

Our training courses and consultancy services offer plenty of essential writing advice. But to give you a flavour of the depth of our trainers' knowledge, we've compiled a selection of the best business writing tips here.

Advice articles

• Executive summaries
• Grammar rules
• How to beat writer's block
• How to choose a writing skills training provider
• Lost in translation
• Reader-profile questionnaire
• Sales proposals: remember the reader
• Smart email
• Ten tips for better sales proposals
• Ten tips for high-impact documents
• Ten tips for perfect punctuation
• Ten top spelling tips
• Writing for the web
• Writing intros and endings

Audio tips

• Apostrophes (from podcast one, series one)
• How to write a winning sales proposal (from podcast two, series one)
• How to write a good speech (from podcast three, series one)
• Proofreading techniques (from podcast three, series one)
• How to get your press release noticed (from podcast four, series one)
• Executive summaries (from podcast five, series one)
• Overcome writer's block (from podcast five, series one)
• Effective emails (from podcast six, series one)
• Layout of document (from podcast seven, series one)
• Captivating introductions and memorable endings (from podcast eight, series one)
• Writing for readers whose first language isn't English (from podcast eight, series one)

Whether you are interested in basic letter writing tips, report writing tips, more formal report writing advice or even help with creating a compelling executive summary, we’re here to help. If there is an area of business writing you can’t see covered on this page, email us and tell us what topics you would like to see featured here and we'll do our best to include them.

Access our other free writing skills resources:

• check out our blog Write Now
• read our monthly writing tips e-bulletin Write Away
• contribute to our writing forum Write Here
• listen to our monthly podcast Communication Lab
• take a look at our style guide
• read about Emphasis in the news
• expand your mind at our Research Centre.

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