Navy Eval and Fitrep Writing Guide [Paperback]

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Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Professional Management; 3 edition (December 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1879123061
• ISBN-13: 978-1879123069
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #593,770 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars If you can't write, this won't help you!, December 17, 2001

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Chris Garvin (San Diego, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Navy Eval and Fitrep Writing Guide (Paperback)

This is another of the "pick a phrase from column A" books that makes awards and evals so difficult to wade through. The same trite phrases we've all seen, like "meticulous attenion to detail..." and "impressive military bearing-- consistently outstanding in PRT".
The boards know you just picked sentences out of this book-- if you write evals with it, you do yourself and your troops a disservice.
Its sole use is as a thesaurus, when you just can't find another way to say "Outstanding".

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The last of any book I would use!, December 25, 2005

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Richard J. Osborn (Oak Harbor, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Navy Eval and Fitrep Writing Guide (Paperback)

If you are looking for a book to help your Sailors to get promoted, use the Guide to Naval Writing! This book will not do it, period!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Just a VERY basic reference. For novice writers., December 1, 2006

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Iryshkidd (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Navy Eval and Fitrep Writing Guide (Paperback)

ANY leader who uses this to find ways to describe their sailors has no business writing their evals. These "phrases" are tired and unoriginal; they are fluff, unsubstantial, non-quantitative, and demonstrate lack of vocabulary, ability to construct meaningful sentences, and lack of creative writing ability. It's a moderate "reference" for certain types of guidelines as far as form, or certain criteria if you are a novice eval/fitrep writer. If you can't spell, don't know the difference between LEAD and LED (as in past tense leadership), and fill your sentences with far too many prepositions, use this to de-junk your writing, to find a concise way to just get to the point. Any board in the Navy will recognize these meaningless "BLURBS" and it will diminish the credibility and weight of the block 43 write up. 20+ years of evals/and fitreps and still writing!