As mentioned in our previous post about text and email communication skills, here is the list of resources to help with communicating by Email or Text.

Grammar Book

The GrammarBook Blog includes regular posts to help with common grammar and punctuation conundrums. The purpose of the blog is to promote the book, but the content is so good that you don’t mind the odd plug here and there. Here is one example of the videos they produce:

Visit GrammarBook.com for the full list of videos

The Grammar Blog

This site is devoted to real life Examples of Bad Grammar to help you avoid making the same mistakes.

Grammar Girl

The Grammar Girl Podcast is available via RSS, so you can improve your skills while you’re out and about; and the Blog has the transcripts with links to any references mentioned in each show.

Mind Tools

Mind Tools have a number of articles on the topic, including An Introduction to Communication Skills.

Cheese

This video has some important messages… It can be very easy to send an email without thinking of the implications. If you have some patience and can get over the cheese factor, have a look:

This one is from Telephone Doctor.

Eats Shoots & Leaves

This is a classic, and highly popular book by Lynne Truss.  They also have a punctuation game online.

More…

We’d be happy to update this list, so if you know of books, videos or websites that you’ve found useful or that you publish, please let us know.

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