Thursday, May 29, 2008

PLAIN ENGLISH, May 29th

span style="font-style:italic;">Writing clear, direct English is particularly important in a business context. Please rewrite the following item; there are many different but correct ways of doing this.

The Employee Health and Wellness Committee has been led to believe by pest control experts that the insect infestation problem will continue to worsen because of employees who are consuming food at their desks and other locations in the building instead of restricting their eating to the lunchroom.

2 comments:

Nancy said...

Pest control experts have advised the Employee Health and Wellness Committee that the insect investation will remain a problem until they restrict food consumption to the lunchroom.

Veronica Baig said...

Nancy: You've made a good start here.