This document provides tips for effective business writing. It emphasizes that clear communication is key, with 80% focused on communication and 20% on other elements. Some key tips include clarifying your intent before writing, clearly stating your main point up front, covering only one topic per document, providing supporting details, and editing for conciseness. It also recommends having a strong central thesis, making points briefly, fact checking, not relying solely on spell check, taking the time to not rush writing, and using references like dictionaries and thesauruses.

1. Business Writing Basics

2. Communication: 2 A giving or exchanging of information, signals, or messages as by talk, gestures, or writing 5 The art of expressing ideas, especially in speech and writing Webster’s New World Dictionary, 3 rd ed.

3. Communication: Communication influences thoughts, feelings, and actions. Information merely informs Use the 80/20 Rule

4. 80% Communication

5. 20%