(EMAILWIRE.COM, September 09, 2008 ) Seattle – Every day in thousands of well-lit cubicles across North America, managers look at what someone working for them has written and feel despair. Explaining how to fix the tangled prose seems impossible, and rewriting it themselves means another late night at the office. A new solutions-rich writing guide for managers, Help Employees Write Better from Syntax Training in Seattle, explains how to improve employee writing and escape such dilemmas (http://www.syntaxtraining.com/guide.html).

“When you rewrite or correct employee writing, that means you’re doing the employees’ jobs, and there isn’t enough time in the workday for that,” says Lynn Gaertner-Johnston, founder of Syntax Training and author of Help Employees Write Better. “Our handbook provides easy-to-use methods of diagnosing the problems causing the bad writing and specific strategies for supervisors to develop better writing skills in those who report to them. It enables anyone who cares about good business writing to coach someone else – or themselves – to write more clearly and on point.”

From a one-page employee writing assessment that helps the manager identify the strengths and weaknesses of a writing sample to tips for coaching employees to write faster, shorter and more accurately, Help Employees Write Better includes:
• Eight strategies for helping recent graduates write for business readers, not academics.
• Twenty ways to inspire better writing from employees.
• Eight unacceptable – and illegal – uses of email that employees must avoid
• Eight proofreading methods – and one little-known screen function – for finding errors
• Ten out-of-date business writing rules to stop applying
• Everything needed to create performance improvement plans for employees
• And more, with 60 focused writing improvement strategies in all

Help Employees Write Better: A Guide for Managers, Trainers, and Others Who Care About Business Writing by Lynn Gaertner-Johnston is $79.95 for one copy, with discounted rates for five copies or more. For more information or to read three free excerpts from the guide, visit http://www.syntaxtraining.com/guide.html, email info@syntaxtraining.com or call 206-782-8410.

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