You would think that when a person applies for a new job, they would take care to put their best image forward. People agonize over whether to wear the blue or brown blazer to the interview, but, amazingly, they don’t proofread their resumés for basic blunders. Then they never get the chance to choose which …
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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. …
I received an email recently that contained the signature line: “Expect typos.” Why should I expect typos? I expect people to avoid them, especially in business correspondence. Cell phones breed typos. Granted, when one is typing with thumbs on a tiny screen, errors are more likely to creep in. But this does not mean that …
In the endless hustle to get work out the door (or onto the email server) faster, it is easy to short-change the proofreading process. When we do this, errors follow. Here are a few tips: If you add a few words to your message after you’ve finished your main proofreading, read it again before you …
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Email misjudgments can land people in jail. Just ask James A. Brown, ex-Merrill Lynch executive who wrote in an email that Enron had “promised” that Merrill would get their money back in a suspicious Enron deal involving barges off the coast of Nigeria. According to the Wall Street Journal (10/23/10) “a possible turning point came …
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