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Mary Dash’s Writing Tips

Mary Dash, Chief of the Congressional Correspondence and Quality Review Branch of the Internal Revenue Service, wrote these excellent writing tips.

Active and passive voice

Compound words

Personal pronouns

Gobbledygook

Problem words

Prepositions at the end of sentences

Federal or federal?

 
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