With Geoff Whyte, I’m writing a book to help you write engagingly, economically and powerfully, perhaps even truthfully at work.

The book, due out in October 2009 (UNSW Press) is called The Little Black Book of Business Writing; it’s like The Little Red Writing Book, but it’s aimed at the needs, constraints and challenges—and it targets the characteristic documents—of business writing in all sectors.

We want to fill the book with examples (good, bad and ugly, and we’d like to invite you to send us (or point us toward) functional writing—turns of bureaucratic phrases, cliches, sentences, paragraphs, letters, brochures, reports, websites, Ministerials, media releases, job advertisements, tenders and the rest—that embody the very best and worst of work-based writing.

You can do that in the comments section below. Geoff and I would be very grateful for your help. Anonymity (or, if you like, publicity) guaranteed.