The Run-down on Capital Letters
For the most part, distinguishing between when it’s appropriate to use capital letters is pretty straightforward. Places like the start of a sentence and people’s names are no-brainers. However, there...
Spring Cleaning: Is it time to refresh your website?
That dreaded time of year is upon us. Although spring cleaning isn’t the most exciting thing in the world to do, it’s necessary for getting rid of what we no longer need. Both to de-clutter and make...
The Importance of Following a Style Guide
If you’re involved in any sort of business, you’re bound to create written material that will in some way, shape or form communicate what you’re doing with the rest of the world. To ensure your...
A Breakdown of the Different Types of Editing
When you ask someone to edit a document for you, you need to specify exactly what you want done. Editing takes on several forms that involve varying degrees of time, effort and attention to detail. So,...
Tips To Stay Focused While Editing
Staying focused on a single task without getting distracted can be challenging—especially when you don’t have someone standing over your shoulder. Left to our own devices, this can prove to be quite...
5 of the Most Common Grammar Mistakes
The world of grammar encompasses a wide range of language rules and an even wider range of ways to mess those rules up. If you’ve ever written anything longer than a few sentences, you’ve probably...
Self-Editing Tip: Little Words that Don’t Need to be There
If you’ve been paying attention, you know that using long, complicated words is not the path to clear communication. But even if you’ve learned that lesson and practice it daily, you can still take...
Attention, Writers and Editors! Beware the Dangers Lurking in Large Type…
If you’ve ever had to look through an article or other piece of writing that was presented in a large font, you may have missed some rather obvious errors. Whether the writing was your own or someone...
Tip for Writers: How Not to Take an Editor’s Corrections Personally
For a productive writer in any genre, there is rarely time to get down about editorial corrections or criticism. Yes, it may sting sometimes and no writer enjoys seeing their work dissected and critiqued,...
Does the “I Before E Except After C” Rule Work In Every Situation?
Here’s a classic grammar rule that we’ve all heard a time or two. In fact, if you went to any school from kindergarten through grade 8, you’ve probably heard it hundreds of times. “I before E,...
Personality Traits of Highly Effective Copy Editors
Here at Re:word Communications, we’re under the impression that we have some of the most effective copy editors in the industry. Whether it’s a white paper, a term paper, a website or a training manual,...
Why You Shouldn’t Rely on Automatic Grammar Checkers to Correct Your Writing
In an earlier post, we gave details on some of the problems associated with the Google Translate tool. Well, there’s another type of automated tool that often makes intelligent writers look foolish,...