Here’s a great article called Want People to Read Your Sales Page? Make it Scannable by Dave Navarro at Copyblogger who shares tips for making your sales writing easy to scan by writing benefit-packed subheads. It’s a great example of what it teaches and it’s full of other good writing advice. In fact Copyblogger has  whole series of great articles about writing magnetic headlines. (I used one of their tips to write the title for this blog–do you like it?) And here’s one from Problogger: 15 Ways to Rework your Next Blog Post Title

From Brian Clark, also from Copyblogger, some good tips for writing engaging case studies that shine the light on your clients’ successes.

This is a good one by Johnny B Truant on using storytelling to sell: How to Use Storyselling to Boost Sales

Read Lynn Gaertner-Johnson’s Essentials of Emails That Sell for a good summary of email writing tips. I see this as a checklist more than in-depth strategies.

It’s not easy to write about yourself, and yet your clients need to know you’re credible. Again from Copyblogger, here are some good ideas for how build personal credibility.

Do you have a company blog? You should. Here are some great ideas to help you get it right by Matthew Stibbe of Bad Language: Writing a company blog people will actually read. My favourite line from this blog is “Where possible, write for (or to) your readers rather than about your company.” Also check out 9 Common Corporate Blog Writing Errors from Brad Shorr. And here from Problogger:  How to find readers for a business blog.

From goodcopybadcopy, a great blog called Who do you think you’re talking to? A vivid illustration of how flat your writing can be if you don’t think hard about who you’re writing to and what they care about.

Yet another Copyblogger article, this time by Sonia Simone: The Complete Newbie’s Guide to Marketing.

Lots to read! Lots of inspiration.

Know any high school students who need to write a winning college entry exam? Here’s some advice from the Figarospeech blog.

English is a “magnificent bastard tongue” which has grown by absorbing words from other languages. Try this word/origin matching quiz from About.com. I only got 10/20, and I might have cheated a bit.

Another quiz from About.com—this one is an English Language Trivia Quiz.

Where does English get its best new words? According the todaytranslations it’s the Simpsons with words like Doh!, introubulate, craptacular and eat my shorts. Doh! has its own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Here’s a fun blog about English idioms—learn about the source and meaning of expressions like ‘pushing the envelope,’ ‘give a hoot,’ and ‘Potemkin Village.’

Great Resources for ESL writers from Writing Matters

Free e-book with lots of inspirational bits from Seth Godin.

While most of you don’t write copy for the web, there’s a ton of good general writing advice in this Copyblogger article that applies to ALL writers: Ten Secrets for More Magnetic Copy

Some guidelines for using articles from The Grammarphobia Blog.

Escalator Clause—Patricia O’Connor’s rant about the customer service buzzword “escalate” meaning to raise a problem or concern to a higher level.

There’s lots written about grammar rules that are just plain wrong—here’s a blog about rules that do matter. Learn them or find yourself in Grammar Hell.

Avoid Thundershower Activity: instead, be plain and direct: avoid thunderstorms instead. From Manage Your Writing by Kenneth W. Davis.

From the archives of Language Log, a linguist’s rant against the “rule” that says never start a sentence with “and.”

From Men with Pens, a fun tribute to the benefits of using exercise (and sex) to help overcome writer’s block.

A reminder from Zen Habits that Life is Poetry, and that we write our poem every day we live. It includes a beautiful poem by William Carlos Williams.

Want to test your punctuation? Here are 76 Online Opportunities to Build Your Punctuation Skills

If you spend a lot of time at your computer writing, you’ll appreciate this guest post on Problogger called Nimble Fingers. It gives you exercises to keep your hands, arms and shoulders loose and injury free.

Is it okay to use “they” or “their” as a singular pronoun? Yes, according to grammar guru Patricia O’Conner. Read On Language: All Purpose Pronoun

After reading Don Tapscott’s Wikinomics last spring, I’ve been wondering how the open source model might work in my world of corporate training. Seth Godin has a related post: Education at the Crossroads.

Translate Into English, by Kenneth Davis of Manage Your Writing. This post promotes writing with short, simple words. I always like his posts.

Two Quotes I wish I’d Written, by linguistics student Gabe Doyle, a fervent anti-prescriptivist.

5 Atrocious Science Clichés to Throw Down A Black Hole, from Wired. The title says it all. Seems no field is immune.

30 Words You Need to Stop Using Today, a cheeky, articulate and above all funny rant about clichés and buzzwords.

Write Like Me from Language Log. It’s about the same issues—her/she and like/as—that I discuss in You Don’t Drive Like Her.

Winning on the Uphills. Marketing guy Seth Godin writes about how we grow most when we’re challenged. Inspiring.

Have you read anything especially interesting?