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Management Team

Melvin Luthy

Dr. Melvin J. Luthy—Chief Editor
Before joining the Brigham Young University faculty, Melvin Luthy taught at Indiana University and Wisconsin State University-Oshkosh. He began his tenure at BYU as part of the English faculty and taught for both the English and Linguistics Departments for many years. His publications have appeared in such journals as Language Learning, College English, Scandinavian Studies, and College Composition and Communication. He has also published software for both English and Finnish studies. He served as chair of the BYU Faculty Advisory Council, Chair of the Linguistic Department, and then became an Associate Dean of the College of Humanities and the Director of the Center for Language Studies at BYU. He produced the linguistic content for the WriteExpress Rhymer and Phonetic Dictionary, and was the main editor for Easy Letters and 3,001 Business & Sales Letters.

Listen to Dr. Luthy on Sky Radio discuss how business writing affects you and your customers.

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Robert Stevens, WriteExpress

Robert Stevens—CEO and CTO
Mr. Stevens completed his graduate course work in Computer Science at Brigham Young University in 1988. He received a B.S. in 1985, also in Computer Science at BYU. His professional career includes managing and programming on highly visible software teams at WordPerfect, Novell, Broderbund, and InstallShield. In 1995 Mr. Stevens co-founded WriteExpress Corporation. His day-to-day management of its Web sites and products resulted in compounded annual growth.

Why Us?

At WriteExpress.com you can find high-quality, best-selling writing software for great prices.

Making lasting impressions and strengthening your business relationships is important to the image you present. WriteExpress software allows you to create impressive documents that motivate and impress your recipients.

WriteExpress ready-made letters and templates can be used as a basis for fast and high-quality documents. They are completely customizable and ready for immediate download.

We’ve not only designed letters that are right for you, we've also made them simple to find. These letters are ideal for business or home use, and are available in quanities up to more than 4,000. With our advanced editing, you'll always make the right choice with WriteExpress. And you'll never compromise on quality.

Since 1997 WriteExpress has published affordable letter samples (US English) on a wide range of sales, business, and personal topics, literally from A (acceptances) to W (Welcomes). Our researching writer-editors systematically revise the letters for tone, vocabulary, sentence structure, and overall effectiveness, so you get premium quality content.

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History

Robert Stevens and Dr. Melvin Luthy founded WriteExpress Corporation in December of 1994. Their partnership began in 1989 when they created a Rhyming Dictionary in cooperation with WordPerfect Corporation. Luthy, a professor of linguistics and former chair of the Brigham Young University linguistics department, built the phonetic database and Stevens programmed the software. Later, Luthy and Stevens worked on their second project—to take the WordPerfect Rhyming Dictionary and transform it into the Novell GroupWise Telephone Access Server (TAS) Text-To-Speech Exceptions Dictionary.

The sheer volume of writing that these projects demanded brought to light a common problem that would-be writers face daily—writers' block. How does a non writer write something well? No tool existed to help amateur writers sound like experts. Word processing, beyond providing a thesaurus, had never addressed the problem of a blank screen. From that point, Luthy and Stevens began brainstorming how they could boost writers' confidence.

By 1995, they had settled on an idea to create the ultimate writing tool. They hired more than thirty editors to write the database. Some of the editors were part-time faculty in the BYU English department. Others were free-lance editors or English MA graduates from Brigham Young University.

Ron Millet, the father of full-text searching and indexing and principal author of Novell's patented QuickFinder search engine, willingly integrated his brainchild.

Brian Wistisen, a former writing tools tester at WordPerfect, spearheaded the testing effort.

Scott Faulring, a software usability expert, provided weekly design and usability feedback. The developers experimented with many ideas, testing, adjusting, and testing again until Faulring's team felt that anyone could use the software.

Luthy and Stevens released the software in March 1997, after twenty-seven months of development, and named their product WriteExpress Interactive Business Letters—designed to be the ultimate writing tool to help amateurs write like professionals.

WriteExpress software continues to win industry awards, including the prestigious "ZD Net 5-Star Editors' Pick Award"—and is a favorite tool among both English and non-English writers.

Our experience with the Easy Letters writing program taught us that some of our users could benefit from even more sales and marketing letters than we had included in the original Easy Letters program. Our development team has now created 900 additional sales and marketing letters to go with the full content of the original award-wining Easy Letters program, which contains over 2200 letters on 500 topics, with sample sentences and phrases. We call the entire new compilation of 3,000+ letters 3,001 Business & Sales Letters. You get the full benefit of the original Easy Letters program, plus 900 more sales and marketing letters.

Will your letter generate the right first impression?

Have you ever written a letter to an employer or friend that was so poorly received you wished you had never sent it? Did your inappropriate or confusing phrasing result in your having to “put out the fire” and spend more time on the “quick” communication?

Writing the perfect letter yourself can be challenging.
It is an area in which many of us falter. A poorly written letter can negate a chance for an interview or harm a relationship with a dear friend or employer.

The power of an effectively crafted letter is immense.
It requires a formal, exacting style. It demands sensitivity to tone and word choice. It must engage an uncompromising eye for grammatical and spelling errors. It is not the same thought process as speaking.

Often it is as simple as attending to the first and last lines of the letter.
We at WriteExpress understand the vital bridge between making it to an employer's “short list” and landing in the slush pile with other poorly constructed letters. Often it is as simple as attending to the first and last lines of the letter, which a busy employer is prone to scan to form a first impression.

Our job is to fit the thoughts and concerns of the writer to the task at hand.
We have studied reams of poorly written communiqués in the business world and resolved this critical aspect of smooth, intelligent, and appropriate connection between two parties. Now you can find just the right strategy, just the right way to phrase what you are longing to say but have lacked “the right words”!

First impressions are lasting.
Set yourself above the rest with a letter that shines in clarity, cordiality, and message. Let WriteExpress work for you. We know you'll be satisfied!