Chapters $3,4,$ and $5$ have revealed many skills or techniques we need to create effective business writing. Using these chapters, identify $3$ specific skill areas where you feel your improvement would provide the largest positive impact on your writing. Use the "Practice Your Skills" sections at the end of chapters $3,4,$ and$/$or $5$ to help you, or include points you discovered when viewing the Mini$-$Assignment $1$ answers.

In your post, list the $3$ target improvement areas, and offer links to helpful specific webpages or other resources you find that:

either explain an issues clearly

or provide useful exercises

or offer other ways to check or improve understanding.

In your post title, name the specific issues $($not $"$My $3$ areas", but, for example, "Lists, Outlining, and Conciseness"$)$ so we can all use each other's posts for quick help finding answers over the rest of the course. After writing your post, comment on a classmate's post.

We want the largest number of good resources possible, so please:

Locate different resources than others who've identified the same issue$($s$).$

Ensure it is a resource you actually found helpful, so other students don't spend time visiting less$-$than$-$great sites at your recommendation. $($Don$\text{'}$t just use the first Google result :$).)$

Check out some of the resources recommended by other students in their posts, and if you also found one helpful, respond to their post and say what's good about it $-$ e$.$g$.,$ Great tips on lists! That way, the most helpful sites will be more obvious for us all.

Now, let's think about Module $4.$ Both Module $4$ and pages $74-77$ of Chapter $3$ discuss the importance of two elements of a direct approach message:

a specific subject line that summarizes the message

a clear message purpose or main point in the first sentence$($s$)$

Thanks!