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Today’s Writing Tip: Going to My Parents’ House
Apostrophes can be tricky and, as a manuscript editor, one of the most common errors I see is the misspelling of the term “my parents’ house.” Most of the writers that I work with are apt to spell the...
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Today’s Writing Tip: How to Spell Internet
It comes as a surprise to some people that the word Internet is always capitalized. Ditto for the abbreviation “Net.” Why is this? The Internet is like a place. It is a large computer network that...
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Today’s Writing Tip: Critiquing Someone Else’s Work
At some point in our writing careers, we may join a writers’ group or be asked to provide constructive criticism to a fellow writer. This is not always as easy as it seems. Some people have thick skin...
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Today’s Writing Tip: Question Marks In the Middle of a Sentence
Punctuating question marks in the middle of a sentence confuses the best of us. Our instinct is often to capitalize the word that follows the question mark, but usually that’s wrong. Here’s an example:...
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Today’s Writing Tip: When to Use Can or Could
It’s easy to determine when to use the word can and when to use could. Can indicates ability. I can type a letter. I can run 10 miles. I can write a fan letter to Jon Hamm, although he probably won’t...
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Today’s Writing Tip: Principal versus Principle
When I was in junior high, we were taught that the way to differentiate these homonyms, or sets of words that sound alike but mean something different, was to think that the principal was our pal....
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Today’s Writing Tip: Efficiency
by Sigrid Macdonald One way I have found to be efficient in business and my personal life is to take the thing that I want to do least and do it first. Every morning when I get up, I assess what I have...
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Today’s Writing Tip: How to Spell Internet
It comes as a surprise to some people that the word Internet is always capitalized. Ditto for the abbreviation “Net.” Why is this? The Internet is like a place. It is a large computer network that...
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Today’s Writing Tip: Critiquing Someone Else’s Work
At some point in our writing careers, we may join a writers’ group or be asked to provide constructive criticism to a fellow writer. This is not always as easy as it seems. Some people have thick skin...
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Today’s Writing Tip: Question Marks In the Middle of a Sentence
Punctuating question marks in the middle of a sentence confuses the best of us. Our instinct is often to capitalize the word that follows the question mark, but usually that’s wrong. Here’s an example:...
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Today’s Writing Tip: When to Use Can or Could
It’s easy to determine when to use the word can and when to use could. Can indicates ability. I can type a letter. I can run 10 miles. I can write a fan letter to Jon Hamm, although he probably won’t...
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Today’s Writing Tip: Principal versus Principle
When I was in junior high, we were taught that the way to differentiate these homonyms, or sets of words that sound alike but mean something different, was to think that the principal was our pal....
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