08 February 2016

Everybody Writes

Use these 12 steps from Ann Handley’s Everybody Writes to take your writing from a discombobulated mess to a coherent, useful piece of content that engages audiences.

Or, if you are a translator grappling with poor source texts, identify precisely what your authors should be doing before submitting their texts to you for translation.

Sources: here, here and here.


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