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Pairs/Groups Of Words Often Confused - Part 5 of 6
Author: Laraine Anne Barker
PASSED, PAST. Passed is the past tense of pass. Past means a time that has gone. "Time passed and we all forgot the incident."...
Pairs/Groups Of Words Often Confused - Part 4 of 6
Author: Laraine Anne Barker
LATER, LATTER. Later means afterwards; latter is the second of two things. "Later that day we went for a walk."...
Pairs/Groups Of Words Often Confused - Part 3 of 6
Author: Laraine Anne Barker
ELICIT, ILLICIT. Elicit means to extract or draw out; illicit means not legal...
Pairs/Groups Of Words Often Confused - Part 2 of 6
Author: Laraine Anne Barker
BAITED, BATED. Baited usually refers to traps or snares. When the reference is to someone who is hardly daring to breathe, the correct word is always bated:...
Dont Rely on Your Spellchecker - or - The Importance of Good Proof Reading
Author: Tony Murtagh
Weather posting a page to your Website, writing a letter to a customer, or submitting an article for publication, it is extremely important to demonstrate how professional you are...
An Inside Look at Proofreading
Author: Donna Sweat
This is the ideal topic for us all to think about. We do it everyday, especially those of us that use the Internet the majority of the time. Web pages, business letters, articles, news releases, documentation and most certainly, advertisements...
Editing
Author: Charles O. Goulet
Expect, allow, and accept that every first draft will represent your lowest standard and have at it...
Pairs/Groups Of Words Often Confused - Part 1 of 6
Author: Laraine Anne Barker
ACCEPT, EXCEPT. Not commonly seen even from unpublished writers, who are probably familiar with the difference because they're all waiting for an acceptance!...
Are You Feeling Dash-ing? Using Punctuation for Effect and Influence
Author: Dr. Tracy Peterson Turner
The dash--that curious mark of punctuation people use in their email and letters. Not the hyphen (-), but the dash (--). It's made by hitting the hyphen twice. In most cases, when you type the hyphen twice it will turn into one long dash (-)...
Proof Positive: the importance of proofreading
Author: Amber McNaught
Last week I was having a quick browse on eBay when something caught my eye. "Black patient shoes!" screamed the headline. "Must see!"...
Revising Your Manuscript: Fourteen Questions to Ask Yourself
Author: Dara Girard
1) Can you summarize the story in about a sentence or two? Example: Three daughters try desperately to save their father from his conniving new wife...
Top 5 Rules of English Grammar
Author: Rumki Sen
Communication is effective when we follow certain rules. These rules make the written words understood. A writer should make the reader's job easier by communicating what he or she wants to communicate...
Looking For Good Copywriter Books?
Author: FreelanceWritingResource.com
If you are looking for copywriter books, you'll want to devote some time to reading. In fact, if you plan to look online for your copy writer resources, you might as well just devote your life to reading!..
How You Can Find Freelance Editing Jobs
Author: Freelance Writing Resource
Freelance editing opportunities are out there, you just need to know where and how to look for them. As a matter of fact, there are hundreds of companies that are waiting for you, right now, to fill their job vacancies...
Comma Usage Made Simple
Author: Aaron Paul Lazar
You can visit all the rules of style you want, and you can readall the books and articles you want. You'll still be confused.You'll see inconsistency. You'll see experts who don't agreewith each other. And, you'll pull out your hair...
Apostrophe Usage Made Simple
Author: Michael LaRocca
According to one of my previous articles, whenever a Southernersays "Y'all watch this," get out of the way because those areprobably the last words he will ever say...
That Cute Lil Ol Apostrophe
Author: Sharon Jacobsen
Have you ever had a student write to tell you they've achieved Grade A's at exams? I have, and one of them was a grade A in English!...
Five Common Errors to Correct Before Submitting a Letter or Report
Author: Dorothy Zjawin
First impressions count in writing too! So it is always a good idea to carefully check documents such as letter, reports, and proposals before submitting them. Below are five of the most common errors...
Check Your English Grammar With This Easy Technique
Author: Heris Yunora
As an International language, English has been used widelyin online world. Whether you use it to write a sales letter, afollow up, ads headline, an article, and so on, youneed to use it correctly...
The Dreaded Daily Word Count
Author: Jolyn Wells-Moran, PhD
Open any book on 'how to write,' and somewhere you will find a discussion of how many words you should write every day. Forget the struggle to get ourselves to the paper or the computer every day, now we have to produce a certain number of words?... |
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