The Write Blog

Image via Wikipedia Thinking about starting a new Wikipedia article for yourself or your business – but you just don’t know where to start?  As we’ve mentioned before, not every article idea or subject is appropriate for Wikipedia (go here for a few pointers). So your first step is to determine if your personal/business/product/other Wikipedia [...]

Paul says: “I’ve attached a screenshot of a person’s profile on a matrimonial website. He says his hobbies are SINNING, cooking and reading! I’m sure he meant singing ”

Charlotte says: “This is a sweepstakes from a huge, professional company, yet, on one of their sweepstakes forms, they could not spell ‘September’ correctly. And what amazes me is this sweepstakes has been running for a while and they have not corrected it.” Thanks, Charlotte! (NOTE:  the fail is sort of hard to see.  It’s [...]

I snapped this picture on my way to an appointment last week: Yikes. Think proofreading is just for printed documents like books, magazines, and reports? Think again: If it has text on it, and other people are going to see it, you should probably proofread it.  Nine times out of ten, you’ll catch the most [...]

A great tip from our friends at Shae Writing: This is a quick and easy way to find all the acronyms in an MS Word document. Remember that this command searches for consecutive capital letters, so it cannot distinguish between ‘SCBA’ and ‘DO NOT.’ For Word 2003: 1. Open the ‘Find’ window (Ctrl + F). [...]