I disliked English immensely in school and now I'm paying for it! Luckily the Internet is full of writing tips like this link entitled, "Ten Mistakes Writers Don't See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do)."
50 Writing Tools
One of my recent goals is to become a better writer. Why you ask? I have no plans on becoming a writer, but I find that the ability to quickly and clear express ideas in an e-mail our report is invaluable to my role as a leader. I first noticed this when I took a role as a Technical Architect at Honeywell. A large part of my job was to write Statements of Direction and Technical Reviews for new products and technologies.
One of the resources that I have found to be very helpful is Roy Clark's Fifty Writing Tools Column. If you'd like to improve your writing skills I highly recommend it. Now if I could only figure out this comma thing....
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