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MISTAKE MONDAY for May 26: Can YOU spot what’s wrong?

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Quit underlining headings in your documents!

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Underlining headings in your written documents used to be common.…

MAY NEWSLETTER: AI prompts for content marketing

AI prompts for content marketers The use of artificial intelligence…
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MISTAKE MONDAY for April 28: Can YOU spot what’s wrong?

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5 steps for rewriting your investment commentary

5 steps for rewriting your investment commentary

Investment commentary authors often know the markets well, but…

APRIL NEWSLETTER: Help for identifying best practices

Everyone wants to use best practices. But how do you identify…
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MISTAKE MONDAY for March 31: Can YOU spot what’s wrong?

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style guidelines for financial services firms

Style guidelines for financial services firms

Style guidelines for financial services firms can help you to…

MARCH NEWSLETTER: Curly versus straight

What kind of quotation marks do you use in your writing? Did…
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MISTAKE MONDAY for Feb. 24: Can YOU spot what’s wrong?

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Hyphens matter

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Hyphen, shmyphen, who cares whether you use hyphens? A Facebook…

FEB. NEWSLETTER: Format your numbers correctly

Formatting ordinal numbers It drives me crazy to see formatting…
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MISTAKE MONDAY for Jan.27: Can YOU spot what’s wrong?

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apostrophe

Why there’s no apostrophe in writers room

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I've long wondered why there is no apostrophe in words like "writers…

JAN. NEWSLETTER: Verbs make your writing vivid

I was struck by this advice in Alexander Chee’s How to Write…
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MISTAKE MONDAY for December 30: Can YOU spot what’s wrong?

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Treasurys vs. Treasuries — Which is the right spelling?

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What's the right way to spell the plural of Treasury, as in U.S.…

DEC. NEWSLETTER: Banish “learnings” and take advantage of sale on my PDF e-books

Down with “learnings”! I’m not a fan of pedantic expressions…