Book Review: Become a Better Writer Any book that contains the following paragraph pretty much has my vote: “Like electricity, paragraphs are often taken for granted until they’re absent.” In...
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All eyeballs stop at numbers: How to give numbers more power in your writing I’m a words person, not a numbers person, and yet I’ve seen how the strategic inclusion...
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To emoji or not to emoji? You should know, to start with, that I’m a hard-ass about most things when it comes to business writing: • The phrase “I trust this...
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How to write your company’s mission and vision statements, sort ofBecause they don't need to be dreadful. Not anymore. I was all set to pen a scathing indictment of mission...
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Punctuation question: Achilles’ or Achilles’s? Jacques’s question: Please help me with a punctuation question. I keep seeing Achilles’ Heel on the web. I’m convinced it must be Achilles’s heel because…
I’ve got a language question. I have a language question, Tiffany. In short, I would appreciate it if you could settle a dispute I am having with my colleagues, over…
Confession: Around five years ago, I did not write optimal SEO website copy. It was crap. My professional life was largely dominated by creating web copy that I really, really…
For me, the proper use of open space in media is like a carb in Sandton: so incredibly rare that when you do encounter it, your mouth drops open in…
“Business writing tips? Why? I’m a business-person. A busy one. My writing doesn’t matter.” Er, it does. Your writing matters, no matter how busy you are, because every manifestation of your…
Stan Carey, on his superlative Sentence First blog, addresses this issue. I can’t improve on what he’s said and how he’s said it, so here’s a taste – followed by…
