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By: 3 Secret Blogging Ideas That Professional Writers Don't Want You To Know

3 Secret Blogging Ideas That Professional Writers Don't Want You To Know — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:52:06 +0000

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[...] post about Five Writing Rules You’re Allowed to Break, and people liked it. Another one — Five Grammar Myths Exploded — was extremely popular. Why? Because I attacked the sacred cow of 7th grade English and showed [...]

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Four Language Errors That Make You Sound Pretentious — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:08:13 +0000

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[...] readers know that I hate and despise the rule “don’t end your sentences with a preposition” because …. However, not everyone got the memo, and some people are just mentally locked in to this idea. So I [...]

By: Five Secrets I Used to Trick Klout. Sort Of. | Professional Blog Service

Five Secrets I Used to Trick Klout. Sort Of. | Professional Blog Service — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:00:31 +0000

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[...] are for my company, or what kind of magazine I would be. I have to write useful information, like exploding grammar myths, how social media is not an entry level position, or an SEO strategy using microsites and specialty [...]

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The Problem With Corporate Blog Writing | Professional Blog Service — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:36:44 +0000

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[...] incomplete. While grammar is (and should be) used, people are a little more loose with some of the grammar rules. That’s not to say a blogger gets to write like an illiterate scribbler. But rather, they [...]

By: Erik Deckers

Erik Deckers — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:18:29 +0000

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@Rose, that’s awesome. Enjoy it. If she gives you any grief, send her here, and I’ll answer her questions. But I’ll do it with a little mental victory dance.

By: Rose S.

Rose S. — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:14:52 +0000

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I can’t wait to tell my grammatically rigid older sister that this is a historic day because I am RIGHT!

By: 100 Fun & Informative Blog Posts Every Grammar Geek Should Bookmark | Online Universities

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:47:49 +0000

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[...] Five Grammar Myths Exploded. Find out which five myths are exploded when you read this blog post. [...]

By: Jake La Jeunesse

Jake La Jeunesse — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:53:50 +0000

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I like this. It acknowledges that language is not a system contrived by man which must obey the rules we have crafted for it. Instead, it’s a thing of nature. A science, even. It’s subject to evolution of it’s own. Just as we can’t impose restrictions on the laws of physics, language is something that should be studied and observed, but left to follow it’s own course.

By: Erik Deckers

Erik Deckers — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:12:15 +0000

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Ooh, @Dave, you just gave me item number one for my followup. Maybe I’ll do one on punctuation.

By: Dave Thackeray

Dave Thackeray — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:26:50 +0000

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Everything mentioned above gets on my craw, but I’m especially piqued in anger when people vending circular Italian delicacies tout them as pizza’s…
.-= Dave Thackeray´s last blog ..Time to tell some stories… =-.