5-minute read] If Abraham Lincoln had used Grammarly when he wrote the Gettysburg Address, he might have doubted himself. Running his text through the grammar checker, he would have received suggestions like: Rewrite the sentence Choose a different word Rephrase sentence Choose a synonym Would Grammarly’s ideas have yielded a tighter, more concise document? Probably. […]
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“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” How to manage our unintentional communication.
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“Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.” Here are a few ways to overcome writer’s block easily.
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[4-minute read] Several Writamins readers have asked me how to use apostrophes with acronyms. An acronym is a word made up of the initial first letters of a group of words. For example, NATO, OPEC, and other pronounceable first initials are acronyms. Initialisms are words that are made up of the initials of core words; they differ from acronyms in
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Eight seconds. That’s about how long you have until your reader decides whether to keep reading or flip forward to the next message. If you’re still reading this Writamin, I’m in luck! Given the deluge of messages your readers are bombarded with and their tenuous attention span, the only way you can be sure to
