Table of Contents

About the author

Introduction

part 1 Planning

1   Powerful business writing: Your objective

2   Proposition: The thin end of your wedge

3   Content: Interrogation & insight

4   Context: Audience & medium

5   Concept: Bringing your story to life

6   Essential Plan checklist

part 2 Doing

7  Punctuation, grammar & usage 

8  How to harness style & structure

9  How to craft that draft

10  How to win hearts & minds

11  How to be utterly fascinating

12  How to be irresistibly persuasive

13  Twenty-five quick wins

14  Essential Do checklist

part 3 Reviewing

15  Perfect, prune & polish

16  Giving and getting feedback

17  Getting better

18  Essential Review checklist

Index

About the Author

Ian Atkinson

is a multi award-winning creative director at one of the UK’s biggest agency groups. He’s written copy in every major medium and for some of the best-known brands in their sectors – including Avis, Barclays, Dyson, Macmillan, National Geographic, Oxfam, Sky and Zurich. He’s also written, edited or critiqued hundreds of business proposals, plans, presentations, pitch documents and marketing materials. Ian has a degree in psychology.