My last post focused on fiction: how to write a novel I would enjoy reading. There are far more people in the world who have to write other kinds of documents: letters, proposals, memos, instructions, report — which may or may not be fictitious. These writers also need some guidance, at least to judge from […]
“Edit” often is synonymous with “take out.” A lot of the work I do involves highlighting unnecessary text and pressing the Delete key. It’s a tough job. In order to make it easier (and you all want my work to be as easy as possible for me, don’t you?), I thought I would warn you […]
Lately, I’ve been reading a lot of work that shows severe problems with sentence structure. Whether in fiction or non-fiction, it’s almost as if the writers do not understand what a sentence is. For example: An analysis of survey results conducted by GHI concluded that different groups of consumers face different kinds of challenges, this […]