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Posted by: Cathy Dann
01 / 01 / 13
Is your writing feeling a bit flabby and out of shape? Treat it to a one-month detox treatment by following these three rules. Get active The active voice is more direct, dynamic and accountable. ‘The Government took no action’ is better than ‘No action was taken’ or ‘No action was taken by the Government’. It’s […]
Posted by: em-admin
20 / 12 / 12
Times are changing for local government. Staff numbers are falling because of budget cuts, the localism agenda means that councils will soon be taking an increased responsibility for public health and reports now have a shorter journey from draft stage to centre stage. The secret of success is understanding your audience, writes Emma Beals. You […]
18 / 12 / 12
Is singular they OK? Dear Madam or Sir I have just discovered your excellent website and begun perusing some of your articles. In the one by Jack Elliot on technical writing I noticed one linguistic point that we (translators at a company in Germany) often discuss but cannot always agree on. Jack writes: ‘An automotive […]
Can you ‘speak to’ the issues? Hi Emphasis I love the e-bulletin and have a question for you: in US circles, and increasingly in UK contexts too, I hear the term ‘speak to [the issues]’ to mean something like ‘make reference to [the issues]’ – eg ‘the report speaks to the issue of unemployment’. Is […]
Seasons greetings, Rudolph here. It has come to my attention that some of you humans are getting in a pickle about rein and reign, so I thought I’d spare 60 seconds to sort you out. Firstly, let’s have a quick look at the dictionary definitions of rein. rein (n) – a long strap used to […]
The basic Twitter.com platform is surprisingly inflexible. For example, it doesn’t allow you to schedule tweets for later, monitor how many people have clicked on your links, combine multiple accounts or view more than one stream of information at a time. So most people who embrace Twitter use a variety of tools and apps to […]
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