Correction

Correction: How to Request Time Off via Email: Formal and Casual

Corrected by Emir Baycan · Full-Stack Developer, Mobile App Builder and Web Platform Founder with expertise in SEO, automation, SaaS, AI visibility, DevOps and scalable digital products

Emir Baycan found something wrong, outdated, or unsupported on this page and proposed a fix. The publisher accepted the correction.

Role
Correction
Publisher
Evolang
Status
Accepted
Date
19 July 2026

The exact change

Before

"A request with a plan attached is easier to approve than a request without one. Every approval you save the reader is an approval they give more freely." Ann Handley, Everybody Writes [...] "The best requests tell a story of foresight. The worst requests look like improvisation." William Zinsser, On Writing Well

After

A request with a plan attached is easier to approve than a request without one. Every approval you save the reader is an approval they give more freely. [...] The best requests tell a story of foresight. The worst requests look like improvisation.

Why this is better

Fabricated quote falsely attributed to Ann Handley's book 'Everybody Writes.' No such quote about approvals/requests exists in her published work; this is an invented attribution using a real author's; Fabricated quote falsely attributed to William Zinsser's book 'On Writing Well.' No such quote about requests/foresight exists in his published work; this is an invented attribution using a real autho

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