Tag: correctness
Weird Al’s hilarious grammar lesson: 9m views in 5 days – #WordCrimes video
A grammar intervention If you love decent writing and grammar, this is for you. If you don’t know your “you’re” from “your”, this is for ...
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Infographic: 10 Commandments of Business Writing
These are the 10 Commandments of high quality, engaging, persuasive business writing. We developed these over many years of copywriting and training corporate warriors to ...
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Which word is wrong?
One word is completely incorrect in this (from today’s BRW email newsletter): Caution favoured over innovation in 2013 With no major catalyst for change, business ...
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How to write a ‘keeper’ Christmas card
How to write a 'keeper' Christmas card; one to give to special people in your life (clients included) that they won't throw away. Many of ...
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Ten Commandments of business writing
Don’t send your readers to Hard-to-Read-Hell! Here are our Ten Commandments for praise-worthy business writing (some will surprise you).
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Stop making this clunky error
One of the most common errors you could be making is turning your verbs into nouns (i.e., nominalising your verbs). Doing that makes your writing ...
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Church-bulletin blunders
Some funny unintentional double meanings written in church bulletins.
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Your duck + 101 Writing Tips… Merry Xmas!
You gave us your most valuable writing tips, we gave them back to you, organised into a beautiful eBook, and donated to Oxfam on your ...
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Using Google to write right
If in doubt about two versions of a phrase or punctuation, Google both (placing inverted commas around your search terms), to see which gets more ...
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