Showing Contrast In Your Paragraphs
When writing, a basic grasp of correct usage is frequently not enough when you’re working to turn text that effectively gets its message across. Even when you use a grammar software to correct weak points, you’ll still have to make sure you express ideas in a manner that can affect your readers. For the most [...]
Cut And Paste: Rearranging Content To Arrive At The Results You Want
Sometimes, you’ll finish writing a piece and find yourself dissatisfied with how it reads. Maybe, the information doesn’t translate well. Perhaps, the way the message is arrived at can be confusing. Whatever the reason, your copy will need to be reworked in order to read better, imparting its point in a way that makes a [...]
Writing An Analytic Essay
Many essays for school will require you to write down your own analysis of various subjects, from books to films to current events. As you may expect, the success of an analytic piece will depend heavily on the quality of the though you put into it. Needless to say, however, the way you write and [...]
Writing Numbers For Business Documents
When crafting business reports and documents, numbers can be one of the trickiest items to include in your text. How exactly do you write them so it doesn’t erode both the readability and professionalism of your documents? As a rule, all numbers smaller than 10 are usually spelled out in words. Filling your copy with [...]
Writing With Impact: Five Techniques
There are literally hundreds of ways anyone can craft their essays to make the most impact. The book Bang! Writing With Impact, in fact, lists over 200 of these strategies designed to help you create writing that produces the results you’re looking for. These five techniques are a few of our favorites: 1. Parallelism This [...]
Developing Your Paragraphs
When crafting your copy, it is important to develop paragraphs that both read well and impart information clearly. While you can always throw around fact after fact in your sentences, paragraphs that do the job best are usually developed with a pattern in mind. The following three techniques are some of the easiest and most [...]
3 Types Of Business Emails That Get Ignored
When writing business emails, you want it to get read. A passed-over email usually means a lost opportunity – one that you may never get back again. These five types of emails are high on the chopping block that busy professionals regularly give up on without a second thought. 1. Emails that pile on the [...]
Organizing Your Paragraphs
Learning to organize your copy into sensible paragraphs is an important skill. Too many times, people tend to write paragraphs that go on forever, leaving their communication muddled and confusing. Paragraphs should always discuss a single idea. Whether it takes you two or twenty sentences to express that idea, it makes sense to group them [...]
Nominalizations And Their Misuse
When your sentence sounds clumsy and you can’t figure out the reason why, always check your nominalizations. A lot of the time, it’s these hard-to-detect constructions that leave copies with that awkward finish that you can’t quite put your finger on. Nominalizations are nouns that have been derived from adjectives and verbs. Words such as [...]
How To Write A Term Paper
Term papers are among the most common documents you’ll end up having to write all through high school and college. As such, developing the right skill set for doing them right can mean the difference between getting great marks or just barely making it through. Start Early. Once your subject matter is approved, start work [...]
