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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,...

Tips for Making Your Writing “Engaging”

Whether you are a professional writer, a student or a small business owner who prefers to tackle your own blogging and web content, you’ve probably read about the importance of making your writing “engaging”...

What the Heck Is a Heteronym?

If you’re like most people, you’ve heard of synonyms, antonyms and homonyms. They’re part of the basic English curriculum in every school, after all. However, you may have breezed through every grade,...

Qualities of an Effective Translation Service

Here’s the thing about translation…you may need it all the time or only once in a long while, but it had better be accurate when you do it. Not many blunders will make you or your organization look...

When to Put an Apostrophe Before the ‘s’ and When to Put It After

Apostrophes play a big role in writing the English language. Not so much in an “understanding the meaning” kind of way, but more of a “proper punctuation” kind of way. If you forget the apostrophe...

Then vs. Than…Yes They Do Have Different Meanings!

If you needed even more evidence of how one letter can make a big difference, ‘then vs. than’ is a great example. People make mistakes with these two words all the time, but they often slip by unnoticed...

Your vs. You’re…One Trick to Guarantee You Never Get It Wrong Again!

Occasionally mixing up the odd words that happen to sound similar is understandable. If you do a lot of writing, it may even be expected. However, this your and you’re confusion has reached epidemic...

Why Accurate Fact Checking Is So Critically Important to Your Writing

It’s easy to think of “fact checking” as an activity reserved for term papers, essays and other writing that require historical accuracy. However, the need for correct factual information in writing...

For All Intensive Purposes…and Other Commonly Misused Phrases

Sometimes, to make your ideas flow from one to the next or to hammer home a point, you use a common phrase to get the job done. We all do it from time to time, but there is a problem. It seems that many...

3 Headline Tips that Will Draw Your Reader In Like a Magnet

Opinions may vary about precisely how long you have to make an impression on a potential reader once they have seen your headline, but most seem to agree it’s less than five seconds. Most also agree...

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,...

What are Expletive Constructions and Why Should I Avoid Them?

Whether you write professionally, churn out the odd report as part of your job, or write papers and stories in school, structural and grammatical missteps are part of the process. One such misstep is known...

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