Start your sentences with strong words and they will sound more authoritative. Avoid using the and there at the start of paragraphs and sentences when you can. Those words reduce reader comprehension and make someone have to scan more of… Read More ›
Some words have been so abused they are meaningless now. These words once provided emphasis to a sentence and now serve to dilute it. Except in particular circumstances, you are best to cut these from your life: just really very… Read More ›
In Canada, we use a grammar style that takes from both British and American English. We side with the Americans when it comes to ‘which’ and ‘that,’ two words that have similar but distinctly different functions. Far too often –… Read More ›
I’ve been a journalist for about four years now with experience writing for seven different newspapers. This article focuses on interviewing for newspapers but it applies to online journalism as well. Interviewing people is easy and the education you get… Read More ›
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