by Liz Coursen | Mar 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
More error-ridden material from “professional” writers. And don’t just stop at one mistake per sentence, either: more than one sentence has more than one mistake! 1) Simply put, It’s worth more than your credit card! 2) I’ll give you a...
by Liz Coursen | Mar 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
1) He worked for Mayflower Bank, a publicly-traded, SEC regulated company with 500 shareholders, for 35 years, serving as President and CEO for the last 20 years. Rule: Never hyphenate an —ly adverb. I would have, however, stuck a hyphen between “SEC” and “regulated.”...
by Liz Coursen | Mar 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
Words that are spelled differently but pronounced the same are called homonyms. My recently published Self-Editing titles (for the Successful Student, the Modern Author, and Content Writers) contain a comprehensive list of hundreds of homonyms. Some homonyms, like...
by Liz Coursen | Mar 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
When you write an article, you are asserting that you have a great deal of experience, authority, and credibility about the subject matter. I think that’s a pretty unassailable statement. When you write an article about writing an article and your article has a...
by Liz Coursen | Mar 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
1) He worked for Mayflower Bank, a publicly-traded, SEC regulated company with 500 shareholders, for 35 years, serving as President and CEO for the last 20 years. 2) At an office job, you will be paid for certain Federal holidays, such as Christmas, New Year’s Day,...
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