Mary Morel

Bondi Beach, New South Wales
www.onlinegrammar.com.au

Mary's been making a living from words all her working life —as a teacher, freelance writer, facilitator, speaker and consultant. She's been a soloist most of that time having made the decision years ago to work around her children. Now the children are grown (and almost gone), she just likes the lifestyle.

The author of two small business marketing books, Promote Your Business: How to write effective marketing material for your small business and Talk Up Your Business, Mary has new book Write to Govern in the pipeline. She’s also developed three online training programs on grammar, business writing and promotional writing.

Mary writes a monthly e-newsletter, Factorial, about writing, grammar and marketing. 

Mary's memorable quote
"The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon." Robert Cormier, US author.

Articles by Mary

• Business writing: How to tidy up sentences

  Do you want to express yourself better in your business writing? Then tidy up your sentences. Looking closely at sentence length and structure will help make your words work for you.

  • 11 May 09
  • Mary Morel
  • 3 Comments

• Tips for writing marketing material

  As soloists, most of us have to write our own marketing material whether or not we enjoy writing. Often we’re so busy thinking about what we want to say that we lose sight of our audience. Even experienced writers can fall into this trap.

  • 23 March 09
  • Mary Morel
  • 4 Comments

• Styles in modern business writing

  First impressions count and we usually judge a piece of business writing on its visual appearance before we’ve even read a word.

  • 21 November 08
  • Mary Morel
  • 8 Comments

• Punctuation rules: Correct use of apostrophes

  With so many different punctuation rules that need to be followed when writing the English language, it can sometimes get confusing. This article outlines the correct use of apostrophes.

  • 13 October 08
  • Mary Morel
  • 12 Comments

• Tips for self-editing and proofreading

  As most soloists can’t afford to pay a proofreader to edit their writing, the occasional typo is inevitable. However, to make sure your final copy is as good as possible, here are some tips for self-editing and proofreading.

  • 05 September 08
  • Mary Morel
  • 14 Comments