Robert F. Abbott - Articles

Robert F. Abbott is also the author of 3 Easy Ways to Power Up Your Writing, a quick and easy writing course that gives you a focused set of three persuasive writing techniques

A Spreadsheet for a Business Proposal?

Want to give your proposal a unique and useful twist? Use a spreadsheet to summarize or highlight portions of your business proposal. Read

By: Robert F. Abbott | 01/09/2009 | Team Building

The G20 Forum and the Interests of Working People

Were the recent protests and riots at the G20 Forum a true reflection of an ongoing class war, or do they demonstrate that the Left has lost its way? Read

By: Robert F. Abbott | 02/04/2009 | Politics

Getting Started With Business Writing Courses

Planning to improve your communication effectiveness with business writing courses? Let me suggest that you start not with the courses themselves, but with some thinking about your specific goals. By that, I mean what exactly do you want to achieve by taking courses. Here's an example which may help flesh out that... Read

By: Robert F. Abbott | 14/08/2008 | Management

Persuasive Writing Techniques: Pull-Quotes

Have you noticed, when reading magazines or newsletters, that excerpts from the article have been copied from the main body and put into a special box? That's called a pull-quote, and it's a useful persuasive writing technique for anyone who writes -- and not just for magazine editors. For example, I use... Read

By: Robert F. Abbott | 15/07/2008 | Writing