Correction

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

Corrected by Selen Ikbal Uslu · Content Quality Analyst and English Language Specialist

Selen Ikbal Uslu found something wrong, outdated, or unsupported on this page and proposed a fix.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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