Buzzwords

It’s not big and it’s not clever – how to avoid corporatespeak

by Tim Phillips on January 14, 2010

This guest post comes from Tim Phillips, author of the highly enjoyable Talk Normal blog. After 20 years as a journalist I started blogging about how we should “Make the Bad Noises Stop” because communicating – which after all is my job – is making me crazy. This is often how my interviews go: Me: [...]

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Recommended links 22 July 2009

by Matthew Stibbe on July 22, 2009

Seven simple ways to dramatically improve everything you write on Write to Done. A nice summary of Strunk and White for anyone who hasn’t read it or needs a reminder. (See also my book review of The Elements of Style on this blog.) The words you wear. The author of Managing Humans compiles an index [...]

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Five cool links about writing

by Matthew Stibbe on August 20, 2007

Dumb Little Man’s 40+ tips to improve your grammar and punctuation. If you read this post, you don’t have to read Eats Shoots and Leaves. (In fact you don’t have to read it anyway.) Visual Thesaurus. It’s a useful tool for brainstorming words. They also publish interesting articles about writing from various notable bloggers. And [...]

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