Funds to hire editors on contract have evaporated. Likewise, there are fewer resource centers and librarians to locate the perfect background information for our projects. For 'Lone Ranger' mobile workers, or teleworkers, or consultants, there is no 'Tonto'- nobody to save our skin. Clients, internal and external, expect first-class work. They engage us to produce top-quality documents and are not sympathetic to circumlocution, typos, and dumb errors.
Help is available Three resources help to cope with the writing challenges identified above.
Powerful word processing software contains features that take some guessing out of writing. As well, the Internet is chock-full of information to help you write. Finally, if you are lucky, a third resource, family-based 'editors', can also help . Here are four current writing-related challenges and solutions that you can adapt to your individual situations.