So my best friend never finished high school and has a serious self-improvement thing going on. One of the things she's working on is her communications skills.
I passed on to her some decent books on technical writing, and she's getting into it. She's pretty self-directed, but she wants to get feedback on what she's sending out and I offered to help.
I know how to write a decent memo/email/whatever, and I've proofread and tweaked stuff for friends in the past. But with some of the stuff I'm critiquing, I'm having to get into explaining why stuff does and doesn't work. The primary objective isn't to send out the best single message, its to help develop her writing skills.
For example, explaining the parallelism of information contained in lists.
Take this sentence: "I really liked walking my dog, science fiction novels by Robert Heinlein, and sleep."
I'm looking at references to better explain how I'd go about re-writing it and applying some writing rules of thumb.
I'm looking for a source for me, rather than her. She initiates things by sending me writing examples, and I'm looking for something to dig into to improve my explanations.
Any thoughts?
I passed on to her some decent books on technical writing, and she's getting into it. She's pretty self-directed, but she wants to get feedback on what she's sending out and I offered to help.
I know how to write a decent memo/email/whatever, and I've proofread and tweaked stuff for friends in the past. But with some of the stuff I'm critiquing, I'm having to get into explaining why stuff does and doesn't work. The primary objective isn't to send out the best single message, its to help develop her writing skills.
For example, explaining the parallelism of information contained in lists.
Take this sentence: "I really liked walking my dog, science fiction novels by Robert Heinlein, and sleep."
I'm looking at references to better explain how I'd go about re-writing it and applying some writing rules of thumb.
I'm looking for a source for me, rather than her. She initiates things by sending me writing examples, and I'm looking for something to dig into to improve my explanations.
Any thoughts?