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Navy Eval and Fitrep Writing Guide

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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".

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!

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!

This product is only $27.95 at the NEX... view the larger image of the book on amazon and you can see the price is clearly marked on the cover.

I bought this book over a year ago, used from Alibris. I thought it was an OK book and it contained just what I was looking for and expected. Another reviewer criticized it for having "trite phrases we've all seen, like "meticulous attenion to detail..." and "impressive military bearing--". I don't understand the criticism. That's what the book is for and why I bought it --because I can't remember how to say it well myself. I have used this book several times and am completely satisfied.

a great book for writing navy evals. write your own haha. copy them verbatim from this book and see what chief says. it actually is a really good book for helping you improve eval writing skills or at the least give you some strong adjetives.

I've used this book for the past 5 years and it is a great guide for writing evals and fitreps. The idea is not to take the words straight from the book, but use the book as a guide to spark your thoughts. I am curious why the price is so high on Amazon when you can buy the book at the Navy Exchange for $27.95 tax free.

Great help in writing your Navy Evaluations!! Bought it for my husband (at his request) and he is completely happy with it.

I recently made a comment on about not recieving my book, which i must take back because after all the confusion was settled. Ms. Bently resent me my item as i asked for. Ms. Bently has offered me the Best Custumer Service i have ever recieved and i would be greatful to do business with her again. Thank You Ms. Bently.