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💼 At work
Emails, reports, applications and the documents a job asks for.
- I need to write a professional emailBeginner
- I need to write a business letterIntermediate
- I need to write a cover letter for a jobIntermediate
- I need to write a CV or resumeIntermediate
Conventions differ by country — the guide covers UK, US and Nigerian expectations.
- I need to write a memoIntermediate
- I need to write a report for workIntermediate
- I need to write a business proposalIntermediate
- I need to write a grant applicationAdvanced
- I need to write a personal statement about myselfIntermediate
- I need to write a press releaseIntermediate
- I need to write a case studyIntermediate
- I need to write a product descriptionIntermediate
- I need to write a reference letter for someone elseIntermediate
- I need to write minutes of a meetingBeginner
- I need to write a meeting agendaBeginner
- I need to write a standard operating procedureIntermediate
- I need to write a performance review or self-assessmentIntermediate
🎓 At school or university
Essays, research and the academic conventions that get marked.
- I need to write an essayIntermediate
- I need to write a research paperAdvanced
- I need to write a thesis or dissertationAdvanced
- I need to write citations and a bibliographyIntermediate
- I need to write something without plagiarisingIntermediate
- I need to write an academic piece in the right registerIntermediate
- I need to write a book review for classIntermediate
- I need to write a piece using reliable sourcesIntermediate
- I need to write a literature reviewAdvanced
- I need to write a personal statement for universityBeginner
- I need to write a lab reportBeginner
- I need to write an essay in an examIntermediate
Plan for five minutes even though it feels impossible.
- I need to write an annotated bibliographyIntermediate
- I need to write a peer review of someone's paperAdvanced
🌐 Online and social
Blogs, newsletters, search-friendly pages and social copy.
- I need to write a blog postBeginner
- I need to write a newsletterIntermediate
- I need to write something that ranks in searchIntermediate
- I need to write social media copyIntermediate
- I need to write marketing or sales copyIntermediate
- I need to write a tutorial or how-toIntermediate
- I need to write a review of somethingIntermediate
- I need to write a headline that gets readIntermediate
- I need to write a LinkedIn postBeginner
- I need to write a video or YouTube scriptBeginner
- I need to write a thread on X, Threads or BlueskyBeginner
- I need to write an FAQ pageBeginner
✍️ Creative writing
Stories, poems, scripts and writing from your own life.
- I need to write a short storyIntermediate
- I need to write dialogue that sounds realIntermediate
- I need to write characters people believeIntermediate
- I need to write a poemIntermediate
- I need to write a screenplay or scriptAdvanced
- I need to write a memoir or life storyAdvanced
- I need to write a personal essayIntermediate
- I need to write travel writingIntermediate
- I need to write a feature articleAdvanced
- I need to write anything at all — I'm stuckBeginner
- I need to write a very short storyIntermediate
- I need to write a novelAdvanced
Six months of drafting at 500 words a day.
🏠 Everyday life
The writing nobody teaches you but everyone eventually needs.
- I need to write a speech or toastIntermediate
- I need to write a journal entryBeginner
- I need to write a gratitude journal entryBeginner
- I need to write an email that isn't too stiffBeginner
- I need to write a formal email to someone seniorBeginner
- I need to write a wedding speech or a toastBeginner
- I need to write a eulogy for a funeralBeginner
Short, true, and readable when you are not at your best.
- I need to write a thank-you noteBeginner
- I need to write a condolence or sympathy messageBeginner
Four sentences sent now beats a perfect one sent never.
- I need to write a complaint to a companyBeginner
- I need to write an appeal against a decisionIntermediate
Find the permitted grounds before you write a word.
- I need to write an apologyIntermediate
Search your draft for "if", "but" and "you feel" — each is a probable failure.
📮 Getting published and paid
Pitching, submitting, portfolios and being paid for writing.
- I need to write a pitch to an editorAdvanced
- I need to write a query letterAdvanced
- I need to write a writing portfolioIntermediate
- I need to write a first paid writing gigIntermediate
- I need to write a list of publications that payIntermediate
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- I need to write a rate for freelance workAdvanced
- I need to write a response to a rejectionIntermediate
🔧 Just writing better
Grammar, structure, editing and the habits underneath all of it.
- I need to write a strong introductionBeginner
- I need to write a conclusion that landsBeginner
- I need to write a clear outline before I startBeginner
- I need to write shorter, tighter sentencesIntermediate
- I need to write a clean draft to submitBeginner
- I need to write an edit of my own workIntermediate
- I need to write correct commasBeginner
- I need to write correct apostrophesBeginner
- I need to write semicolons and colons used rightIntermediate
- I need to write British or American spellingBeginner
- I need to write fewer grammar mistakesBeginner
- I need to write active instead of passive voiceBeginner
- I need to write a regular writing habitBeginner
- I need to write to know if my writing is any goodBeginner
- I need to write something with help from AI, without breaking the rulesIntermediate
- I need to write something clearer that more people can readIntermediate
- I need to write something due very soonIntermediate
- I need to write a better draft using feedbackIntermediate
- I need to write consistently, across everything I writeIntermediate
- I need to write something long, like a thesis or a bookAdvanced
- I need to write well in English when it is not my first languageIntermediate
- I need to write an outline before I startBeginner
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