by Liz Coursen | Feb 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
When you are an online “newspaper” that is dependent partially on contributions from your readership, it behooves you to establish editorial guidelines with respect to “style”: spelling, punctuation, grammar, etc. Publicly declaring editorial...
by Liz Coursen | Feb 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
“Blessed” and “blest” are homonyms, though, I must say, when I’m in church I hear “bless-ed'” spoken as two syllables, with the emphasis on the -ed, like in “the blessed Virgin Mary.” However, what’s the...
by Liz Coursen | Jan 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
You know what they say about “assume,” don’t you? Most people who have websites use a hosting company. Oftentimes, that hosting company writes the content for the website. The hosting company’s clients assume that they are getting solid,...
by Liz Coursen | Dec 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
One of the easiest traps to fall into as a writer is using repetitive words and phrases. Fortunately, this is a trap that you can see and correct before you publish or print. It’s tricky, though, because sometimes it takes a couple of “go-overs” to...
by Liz Coursen | Dec 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
Good writing is all about word choice in a specific situation. Some words you’d use in formal writing would not be (emphatically not be) what you’d use when writing, for example, colloquial conversation. Here are three words that people seem to use...
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