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Clear Writing Tips
On Wednesdays, NCEH/ATSDR’s Writer-Editor Team sends writing tips to thousands of CDC employees. Here’s a list of cleared articles that you can share within CDC or other organizations.
General Writing Tips
- Addressing the Issue
- Ending Sentences with Prepositions
- Follow up, Follow-up, or Followup?
- Gobbledygook
- Having Contractions
- Holiday Card Writing Tips
- Holiday Card Writing Tips, Part 2
- Mnemonic Devices
- One Space Between Sentences
- Ordinals
- Person-First Language
- Pronouns
- Stop Fighting These Three Punctuation Rules
Scientific and Public Health Writing Tips
- Writing for a Scientific Audience
- Seven Deadly Sins of Scientific Writing Part 1
- Seven Deadly Sins Part 2
- Seven Deadly Sins Part 3
- Seven Deadly Sins Part 4
- Seven Deadly Sins Part 5
- Seven Deadly Sins Part 6
- Seven Deadly Sins Part 7
- Seven Deadly Sins Recap
- Another Deadly Sins Recap
- Another Deadly Sins Recap, Part 2
- Another Deadly Sins Recap, Part 3