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Subject:RE: New rules for business correspondence From:"Richard Melanson" <rmelanson -at- spirecorp -dot- com> To:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 2 Dec 2010 15:06:59 -0500
Mr. Gene Kim-Eng,
I am 52 years old, have been a Tech Writer for 18 years, and you are
exactly correct with your assessment below, well done.
Rick
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[mailto:techwr-l-bounces+rmelanson=spirecorp -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On
Behalf Of Gene Kim-Eng
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 1:57 PM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: New rules for business correspondence
Most of the "new rules" articles I see give advice that amounts to all
the traditional formalities that the same article writers were telling
everyone had been obsoleted by new communications technologies and new
business environments during the dotcom years.
I guess everything that was old is new again for anyone who graduated
from college and entered the job market in the past 15 years or so.
Gene Kim-Eng
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>
wrote:
> Daughter writes:
>
> Have you discovered any good books about new rules for business
> correspondence?
>
> Am wanting to bone up on sales letter writing (selling myself as
product ...
> i.e., selling ideas) and also to learn more about effective e-mail
writing.
>
> Suggestions?
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