Archive for October, 2008
Know Your Style
I was recently talking to a client about some writing that I’m doing for her website, and I asked an important question that I believe is crucial to good web content, “What is the tone that you would like your website to project?”
Many clients haven’t really considered this question, and sometimes they don’t really understand […]
Really Great Resume Writing Tips
This video is based upon a podcast from secretsofthejobhunt.com, a great resource for us jobhunters. Check out the tips given for resume writing in this interview!
Using a Blog as a Portfolio
Recently, I’ve begun a relationship with a new client. I am writing some web content for his site and a few other things. We made our connection through Elance (I’m beginning to think that Elance is a must for a freelance writer), and our conversation revealed an important idea to me, “Be careful what you write!”
As with all […]
Talk to Your Audience, not With Them.
One of the common errors that I’ve noticed in my editing lately is the poor use of personal pronouns. This weakness in writing can seriously affect our academic work, and can obscure meaning.
What is a personal pronoun? Pronouns are words that take the place of nouns. Words like them, it, and her are pronouns. These […]
Lessons About Writing Learned from Text Messaging
I’ve mentioned before that I think cell phone text messaging is doing a lot to contribute to the decline of quality in written communications, and when we look around at our written world, we notice a new sloppiness brought upon us by the necessary development of text messaging shorthand. While I’m no fan of text […]
