Searching for your voice? Stumbling over communicating in writing to people you speak with effectively every day? Well, there's relief; you don't have to adopt an overly literary style when you write, especially for business documents like memos and e-mails.

Make your life easy on yourself; write like you speak. If you're an effective verbal communicator, then leverage what you do well (speaking) to do better at something at which you're weak (writing). Just pretend you're having a conversation, and write out what you'd say. Think through that conversation, play it out in your mind, anticipate the questions, and answer them, in paragraph (or bullet list) form, on paper.

Of course, please don't follow this advice if you can't communicate well verbally. Excessive slang, bad grammar, all of these things are unacceptable either in conversation or in print.