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Month: November 2016

3 Tips for Producing Consistent Written Content

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There are many editorial strategies for making text easy to write, edit, and read. Here are a few guidelines for simplifying how your company, organization, or publication (even if it’s merely a personal blog) produces content. 1. Minimize House Style “House style” refers to treatment of specialized terminology and treatment of spelling, capitalization, numbers, or … Read more

3 Sentences That Lack Just One Word to Be Correct

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The solution to problems of parallel structure, in which a sentence’s syntactical elements are not quite balanced, is often simply a matter of inserting one missing word. That’s the case in the following examples, each of which is followed by a discussion and a revision. 1. The industry uses decades-old technology that is very expensive, … Read more