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September 19, 2016
By Daphne Gray-Grant
Topic : Business writingWord CountWriters Talk About WritingWhy You Should Abandon the Edit-As-You-Go Method September 19, 2016 By Daphne Gray-Grant![]() Article Topics:Word CountWriters Talk About WritingSeven Strategies for Banishing Your Perfectionism November 27, 2015 By Daphne Gray-Grant
Perfectionism should have been the furthest thing from my mind after getting — and recovering from — a repetitive strain injury. But I was reluctant to resume working on my book. It wasn't so much the pain in my arm. It was more my concern that my writing wasn't any good. Could that have been perfectionism speaking?
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Article Topics:Word CountWriters Talk About WritingHeavy Lifting and Shaving Yaks: Corporate Lingo October 22, 2014 By Mike Pope
Anyone who works for a large organization (or maybe even a small one) knows that certain phrases grab people's imagination and spread through the organization. If you're like me, you go to meetings and presentations and expressions keep popping up, which is very distracting — you try to listen to what the speaker is saying, but you end up paying more attention to how they're saying it.
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Article Topics:Word CountWriters Talk About Writing7 Tips for Making Quotes More Believable August 13, 2014 By Daphne Gray-Grant
If you write copy, have you ever had to "make up" quotes for your boss? This is not such an unusual thing in the world of corporate communications. Bosses are busy and they often don't have time to be interviewed by their own PR or public affairs person.
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Article Topics:CandlepowerAd and marketing creativesRed Pen Diaries: Das Kapitalization November 8, 2010 By Julia RubinerThere it was again — a random capital. The offender was the "M" at the beginning of "Mother," as in "Her Mother was the first to notice she could really sing." If it had been "Mother told me she thought I could really sing," it would have been fine and dandy because "Mother" would have been serving as a proper noun there, referring to a particular maternal figure. But when it's not standing in for a name, "mother" should not be capitalized. Continue reading...Article Topics:Word RoutesExploring the pathways of our lexiconBuzzword Watch: "Acq-hire" September 28, 2010 By Ben Zimmer
Earlier this month, a post by Dan Frommer on Business Insider had this to say about Google, Facebook and Apple: "Recently, all three companies have been making a lot of 'acq-hires,' where they buy a company to acquire its human resources." You read that right: acq-hire. Where did this odd word come from?
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Article Topics:CandlepowerAd and marketing creativesWeird Words from the Corporatese Lexicon August 3, 2010 By Nancy Friedman
English is my native tongue, language is my beat, and corporate America is where I earn my daily crust. Nevertheless, every so often I encounter an English word — in a corporate memo, speech, or email — that mystifies me. I've seen the word before; I've just never seen it used that way. I've always assumed the word meant one thing; here it obviously means something very different.
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