About WriteExpress Corporation

WriteExpress Corporation
232 West 760 South
Salem, Utah, USA, 84653

USA Phone Orders: 800-974-8339 or 801-423-7968
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Federal Tax Number for PO Orders: 87-0541256

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Management Team

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 Finder, and was the main editor for WriteExpress Easy Letters and 3,001 Business & Sales Letters.

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Robert J. Stevens – President and CTO
Mr. Stevens completed his graduate course work in Computer Science at Brigham Young University. He received a B.S. in Computer Science at BYU in 1985. His seventeen-year professional career includes managing and programming on highly visible software teams at WordPerfect, Novell, Broderbund, and InstallShield. In 1994 Mr. Stevens co-founded WriteExpress Corporation. His day-to-day management of its Web sites and products has resulted in compounded annual growth.

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 nonwriter 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. Version 2.1, renamed WriteExpress Easy Letters, was released March 1998. Version 2000, which is easier to use and adds support for Word 2000 and Novell GroupWise, was released in November 1999. Version 2001 was released November 2000. Version 2002 was released February 2002. It adds support for Word 2002. The Mac Classic version of Rhymer was released December 2001. The Mac Carbon Rhymer was released March 2003.

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 2100 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.