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- Does your Vocabulary Hold you Back? by Writing Problems Explained on Nov 20, 2009
Many people see vocabulary as one of their top writing problems. If you’re such a person, you may work with a thesaurus open, ready to dig out the perfect word to make a point or complete a description. Here’s a surprising truth: most voc...
- Mundane Writing Problems by Writing Problems Explained on Oct 19, 2009
I read an article recently about Justin Timberlake’s golf course. The article explained that Mr Timberlake had played the first round at a golf course he had bought and rennovated. The article went on to say: The Memphis native got the idea to...
- Bad Writing: To Lean More by Writing Problems Explained on Jul 19, 2009
Here’s a sentence written by someone who has writing problems. I read it recently in an advertisement. Do you see anything wrong with it? To learn more about the program, we’ve set up a web site at www.website.com. The problem: The senten...
- Writing Problems Heard Lately by Writing Problems Explained on May 29, 2009
I’ve attended a few programs lately where people have delivered prepared speeches. Sadly, several of those speeches have suffered from distracting writing problems. People asked to speak extemporaneously often stammer incomprehensible nonsense,...
- Don’t tell me How I Feel by Writing Problems Explained on Mar 16, 2009
If you tell your readers how they’re going to feel about information your article or story presents, you have serious writing problems. Telling people how they’ll feel—or how they should feel—is a common writing device. You see it most often...
- Whether Or Not? by Writing Problems Explained on Feb 26, 2009
You can explain away so many writing problems as extensions of conversational English! But hearing the same incorrect expression day-after-day is no excuse for using that expression in your writing. You hear some expressions so often that they sound...
- Today, Only Fix One of your Writing Problems by Writing Problems Explained on Feb 10, 2009
Ryan Seacrest said this at the end of an installment of American Idol: In the end there can only be one American Idol. Don’t count this mistake among your writing problems. Mistake? You ask. This sentence could easily mean that the only thing left...
