Articles By L. Bovee John V. Thill

Here are ten sentence blunders to avoid if you want your reader to understand what you mean: (1) packing a paragraph’s worth of details into a single sentence, (2) trite expressions, (3) putting in excess words, (4) using too many intensifiers, (5) connecting a series of related sentences with conjunctions, (6) inserting “it seems that” in your sentences to avoid stating a judgment as a fact, (7) starting a sentence with “it is” or “there are,”

This article outlines five common mistakes in business writing, with tips on how to avoid them: (1) burying the point, (2) boring the reader, (3) saying in twenty words what you could say in five, (4) using unfamiliar words, and (5) relying on outdated language.