Expert makes Writing Well for Business Success easy! VIDEO INTERVIEW - Mr. Media Interviews by Bob A

Today's Guest: Sandra E, Lamb, author of Writing Well for Business Success: A Complete Guide to Style, Grammar, and Usage at Work.
 

Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with SANDRA LAMB by clicking on the video player above! 

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of high-strung grammarians just itching for a fight about, uh, nothing anyone else considers important… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

I may be the worst writer in the world to be interviewing someone who has written a book with the subtitle “A Complete Guide to Style, Grammar, and Usage at Work.”

Honestly, I haven’t paid strict attention to the rules of grammar since high school.
SANDRA E. LAMB podcast excerpt: "I think even Hillary Clinton has conceded that it's very important that you know the office e-mail rules and follow the rules. Meticulously. That is going to put you in better stead with your employer."
You can LISTEN to this interview with SANDRA E. LAMB, author of WRITING WELL FOR BUSINESS SUCCESS, by clicking the audio player above!

Some time in college, I figured out that if I focused on style and telling a coherent story, no one paid as much attention to my grammatical sins.

Oh, and it helps to be a pretty good speller, too.
SANDRA E. LAMB podcast excerpt: "There are special requirements for the business writers, those people who have to write at work. Since the advent of the Internet -- and since business is done almost entirely by e-mail -- there is good news and bad news. The good news is that we have the immediacy of being able to communicate with people in an instant. Sometimes, in fact, I feel like I get an answer before I've asked the question! That also has a dark side. Senior executives who supervise a lot of people say that, within the workplace, e-mail is being rampantly fractured by people who are not using it properly."

But that’s just me. Most people i