Posts Tagged ‘writing’

Writing Good Website Content

Friday, February 26th, 2010

If you want to drive traffic to your website, one of the most important things you can do is write good web content. Good website content is interesting, relevant, and utilizes smart internal linking with keywords.
Interesting content is related to the audience you are trying to reach.  While you know you are brilliant and fascinating, [...]

Common ESL Errors – Articles

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

English has three articles: a, an, and the. The is the definite article. It is used to refer to specific nouns. A and An are indefinite articles. They refer to non-specific nouns.

Common ESL Errors – Count/Non-count Nouns

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

One common error made by English as a Second Language (ESL) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) speakers is confusion between count and non-count nouns.

Grammar Anarky

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Grammar doesn’t always have to be such serious business. Sometimes, we should just take a minute to chuckle.

Is Fast Flip the Future of Journalism?

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Google just launched the news reader Fast Flip. Articles will load faster because they are stripped of ads and other things that slow down how quickly they load. Will this have an impact on the way the news is written?

Similar Words are Easily Confused

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

There are a lot of words that sound the same, but are spelled differently. Even the New York Times gets it wrong.

Consider Web Content Before Design

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Companies considering setting up a new website need to start the process by thinking about what they want their web site to say in order to achieve maximum online exposure. Some web design firms tend to design awful websites because they are obsessed with getting attention through images and not through words.
When people come across [...]

Writing With Style

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

By Kurt Vonnegut
Newspaper reporters and technical writers are trained to reveal almost nothing about themselves in their writings. This makes them freaks in the world of writers, since almost all of the other ink-stained wretches in that world reveal a lot about themselves to readers. We call these revelations, accidental and intentional, elements of style.
These [...]

The Joy of Prose

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Kerouac’s Belief and Technique for Modern Prose
List of Essentials

Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
Submissive to everything, open, listening
Try never get drunk outside yr own house
Be in love with yr life
Something that you feel will find its own form
Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
Blow as deep as you want to blow
Write [...]