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Writing an eloquent sentence is much like beading a necklace: each phrase is a bead that must be polished and put in just the right order to create a pleasing whole. But too often in today’s business writing, we scatter our pages with lengthy, awkward phrases that bog down our ideas and turn our reader away. In this article, you’ll find three types of phrases that belong on your “no fly” list—and examples of how to cut and slash them to reasonable size.
Posted: 2007-08-03
Category: Writing
This article outlines five common mistakes in business writing, with tips on how to avoid them: (1) burying the point, (2) boring the reader, (3) saying in twenty words what you could say in five, (4) using unfamiliar words, and (5) relying on outdated language.
Posted: 2007-07-28
Category: Writing
This article offers twelve tips for persuading people to say "yes" to whatever you are proposing.
Posted: 2007-07-27
Category: Business
This article offers five tips for making a lasting impression during a job interview.
Posted: 2007-07-27
Category: Careers
This article offers 21 techniques on how you can turn your website into a hit.
Posted: 2007-07-27
Category: Arts & Entertainment
This article offers eight steps to follow for creating a podcast that makes your listeners want to come back for more.
Posted: 2007-07-27
Category: Podcasts
Here are ten sentence blunders to avoid if you want your reader to understand what you mean: (1) packing a paragraph's worth of details into a single sentence, (2) trite expressions, (3) putting in excess words, (4) using too many intensifiers, (5) connecting a series of related sentences with conjunctions, (6) inserting "it seems that" in your sentences to avoid stating a judgment as a fact, (7) starting a sentence with "it is" or "there are," (8) not putting two or more similar (parallel) ideas in the same pattern, (9) pointing readers' attention backward with expressions like "as mentioned above," and (10) putting an element is in the wrong place, thereby creating a "dangling modifier."
Posted: 2007-07-21
Category: Writing
This article helps you decide which confusing, boring, and obsolete words to cut and which types of words to put in their place.
Posted: 2007-07-20
Category: Writing & Speaking
Millions of blogs fight for readership online. Making yours stand above the rest may seem like a daunting task, but here are ten suggestions for making your blog posts stand out from the crowd: (1) write each post title so it grabs the reader’s attention, (2) keep sentences short and clear, (3) break up the text, (4) keep current, (5) be bold, (6) be accurate, (7) contribute to the conversation, (8) stay focused, (9) use key words liberally, and (1) be consistent.
Posted: 2007-07-20
Category: Blogging
This article discusses the art of persuasive writing. The author presents five elements to keep in mind when writing persuasive messages.
Posted: 2007-07-19
Category: Writing
This article teaches you how to reach that portion of the Internet that is not readily accessible with the best known search engines. The author provides additional search engines which can enable you to penetrate this "invisible web."
Posted: 2007-07-17
Category: Arts & Entertainment
