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Business writing should be clear, concise, and easy to understand. Sounds like people who don’t know how to write well are suggesting that you “fluff up” your content with BS jargon and fancy language. Bad idea. Give them copies of “The Elements of Style” and the “AP Style Guide” and find a diplomatic way to tell them they’re wrong. 😀
Thank you. I just got a copy of The Elements of Style.
Read. A lot. WSJ, NYT. Do it for your first 30 while drinking coffee or something.
Nah this isn’t what OPs superiors are asking here. They basically want what’s in their brain but for someone else to write it, which is as annoying as it sounds. Best bet is to find an older project that has same/similar text from this manager and adapt it to current project.
1) Study the writing they have approved.
2) Determine the key points that differentiate from your writing.
3) Apply to your current writing style
4) ask for feedback on how it matches their expectations
5) iterate
The AI idea is a good one also you will develop it over your career and get much better.
Put it through one of those writing AIs.
Depends where you work. My first instinct is to write emails in short-form, straightforward, bullets so it’s scannable. But, my firm loves narrative style emails.
In general, I think taking a top-down approach is consistently accepted as ideal business style writing. Start with the most important thing/input needed, then offer the details
after you write it cut 30% of the words out and vary your sentence structure. remove jargon.
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Use active voice. And get the book Weekend Language. You can convey complex concepts simply, but it's different than simple words.