Beyond the Rhetoric

This is a subject that we explored very briefly earlier this year in a What’s Up Wednesday roundup where I linked to a post by Allyson Bird, but I feel it is a subject that is worth discussing further. There are many reason why someone may choose to be a professional writer. Perhaps they feel [...]

If you talk to many of the world’s leading productivity experts, you’ll likely encounter some rather common terms. They might talk about organizational skills and how a cluttered desk could be representative of a cluttered mind. They might tell you about the importance of taking timely breaks from your work, so that you return refreshed [...]

When you decide to embark down the murky and confusing path of entrepreneurship, you must make a fundamental decision very early on in your journey: are your customers going to be the general public or are your customers going to be other businesses? While many of the fundamentals still apply — you’ll want to provide [...]

I’ve written several editions of Grammar 101 that focus on word pairs (or word trios) that sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings. You might remember the post on there, their and they’re, for example. Today, we’re approaching a similar topic, except the exact same letters are used in exactly the [...]

Words that sound the same when spoken, but are spelled differently and have different definitions, can present quite the challenge when it comes time to write them down. Homophones are particularly challenging if one or more of the variations is used more seldomly than its more common counterparts. We’ve seen this with copyright and copywrite, [...]