Business Writing Style Guide

When discussing new writing projects with potential clients, I’m sometimes asked which business writing style guide I follow. While I’ve read several publishers’ style guides, I don’t follow any one; style guides tend to be too long, and rules too obscure for me to consistently remember.

I’ve developed an amalgam of common-sense, high-level American and British writing conventions and consolidated them in this informal, concise guide that I share with clients and coworkers.

This document also serves as a reference to some of the key differences between American and British conventions.

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