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Posted by: Jacob Funnell
04 / 08 / 16
Look through your inbox or an online forum, and it won’t be long until you hit someone making a request and concluding with ‘thanks in advance’. But they’re probably making a big mistake. What’s more, they may have no idea about the hornets’ nest of irritation they’re poking just by using a few short words. […]
19 / 07 / 16
Do you ever feel like you’re always in a face-off with your word processor – and losing? If so, you won’t be surprised to hear that one of the biggest problems nearly everyone faces when they have something to write is getting started. Call it writer’s block. Call it finding your muse. Call it spending […]
Posted by: Stan Carey
15 / 07 / 16
We’re often advised to avoid long words in our writing when shorter words will do. Like many simple style tips, it’s useful but not something you should obey blindly. Writing guides generally agree that short words are preferable. Many take their cue from traditional authorities such as the Fowler brothers, who on page one of […]
Posted by: Catie Holdridge
30 / 06 / 16
How can you make your writing engaging? Or, more specifically, how can you make your business writing engaging? Why, surely that’s a contradiction in terms! Right …? A lot of people do seem to make a distinction between 1) Work Writing, and 2) Pretty Much Every Other Kind of Writing. It essentially amounts to this: […]
20 / 06 / 16
Cowardly writing is the linguistic equivalent of your unreliable ex. It avoids committing. It leads you astray. It wastes your time. And it evades all entreaties to be straightforward or say what it really thinks. You can recognise it by its long sentences, convoluted structure and overuse of words and phrases such as ‘clearly’, ‘it […]
Posted by: Rob Ashton
14 / 06 / 16
For many people, feeling they have nothing to say is one of their biggest writing challenges. (Unfortunately, there are many more who have nothing to say yet write anyway. We’ll come to that in a second.) This is something that much advice on beating writer’s block – which focuses on how to get started – […]
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