Blogs about: Plain English
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Two-Day Court Interpreter Certification Orientation Workshop
I am pleased to announce that there will be a Court Interpreter Certification Program, Two-Day Orientation Workshop (Language Neutral) presented by South Carolina Court Administration in Columbia, Sou… more →
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The Daily Bitcoin - Episode 1
wrote 1 day ago: Recorded & Released five days a week, The Daily Bitcoin drops you into the conversation with Ada … more →
MBA Admissions: Packaging Yourself to Say "All the Right Things"
wrote 1 day ago: Gift icon (Photo credit: Wikipedia) For the Asian candidate, MBA admissions is an exercise in cross- … more →
Massaging and Harmonizing
wrote 2 days ago: A friend in the business world who shares my distain of overstuffed language sent me this beauty tod … more →
NHS communications in poor health
wrote 1 week ago: Is it so difficult for organizations to speak clearly to their customers? A common feature of corpor … more →
One thing all good writers have in common
wrote 1 week ago: Today I’m starting a blog. This has been long overdue as the pressure to write something a bit … more →
Jargon. A tool of exclusion, efficient technical language or just the ‘cheeping of birds’?
wrote 1 week ago: Chris Bolton divides jargon into different types and considers whether it is useful or simply exclud … more →
Power Vocabulary: Get it!
wrote 1 week ago: Words have a power all their own (Photo credit: Lynne Hand) I was recently editing an English docume … more →
Don't Suck at PowerPoint
wrote 2 weeks ago: Jesse Desjardins has created an engaging presentation about the perils of Powerpoint. His advice? … more →
Plain English for Lawyers: A Dumbing Down Process?
wrote 3 weeks ago: A columnist on Slaw argues for the use of plain English. However, one comment relates the fact that … more →
What the Gobbledygook!
wrote 3 weeks ago: Doesn’t ‘gobbledygook ’ sound like a delicious gooey chocolate concoction? Unfortunately, it h … more →
Juste un mot - email tips for the modern world
wrote 3 weeks ago: This makes the third recent blog on the topic of English usage. But I thought it worth passing on a … more →
A Foreign Language?
wrote 4 weeks ago: You have to love the business world. It has concocted a whole new form of English that sometimes sou … more →
I Dare You to Translate This
wrote 1 month ago: I bring you another example from the corporate world: “As projects tied to [this program] prog … more →
The importance of good web content
wrote 1 month ago: Good content on your website is vital in order to attract potential customers. Too many small busine … more →
Now Translate This!
wrote 1 month ago: Here is another jawdropper from the corporate world: “…a strategic framework to catalyze … more →
Translate This!
wrote 1 month ago: A friend in the corporate world sends me wonderful (read: hideous) examples of inflated writing she … more →
Write for the eye as well as the mind
wrote 1 month ago: Writing well is important, but so is making it look easy to read. Huge chunks of unbroken text just … more →
Monmouthshire County Council staff writing guide: 'Welcome to Compose'
wrote 1 month ago: We thought it’d be useful to blog our web content and writing guidance developed in the past f … more →
Apostrophizing the apostrophe
wrote 1 month ago: An apostrophe is a punctuation mark used to indicate the omission of letters or numbers or to indica … more →
