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Hone In or Home In?

  • Category: Review
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  • On March 18, 2014

Two of the four sentences below are correct. Which are they?

a) Searchers homed in on new target areas.
b) She creates Tweets that hone in on a specific point.
c) The company homed in on the California prospect for its promising experimental drug.
d) I remember... (Read More)

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Does It Surprise You?

  • Category: Write
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  • On March 12, 2014

Ashley Callahan, Coca-Cola’s manager for digital communications and social media, asks that question. If the answer is yes, the content in question is one step closer to getting posted.

Surprise catches your attention, which makes it a good device to slip into all types of business content.

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Upper or Lower? That Is the Question

  • Category: Review
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  • On March 5, 2014

“The One that Started it All”

So starts the dessert menu at a popular restaurant. What’s with the capitalization? Why are that and it down and the other words up?

You may not be writing headlines for signature sweets, but you are for presentations, websites, press releases, and invitations. Copy that randomly switches between uppercase and lowercase... (Read More)

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Let’s Talk About It, Not Around It

  • Category: Edit
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  • On February 26, 2014

“I want to thank you for being so engaged and thoughtful around the direction of the company.”

So wrote a well-known CEO in a well-publicized letter to her employees.

Why the preposition around, which makes it sound as if the employees weighed in on something hovering about, but not quite connected... (Read More)

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Put a Person in the Action

  • Category: Write
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  • On February 19, 2014

Everyone loves a good story, which is why storytelling has become such an effective marketing and communications tool for business. But companies often speak and write in a way that keeps them—and their audiences—at a distance. They’ll introduce sentences with “there is” or “there are”—“There is a lack of clarity,”... (Read More)

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A Hurricane in a Phone Booth

  • Category: Write
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  • On February 12, 2014

When Roseanne Cash had polyps on her vocal chords, her doctors ordered steroids and four months of vocal rest. “I was like a hurricane in a phone booth,” the singer told The New York Times. Even if you’ve never experienced the jazzed-up side effects of steroids, bam, you get the... (Read More)

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Take Something Off

  • Category: Edit
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  • On February 5, 2014

Have you ever written something like this?

  • It’s been a genuinely remarkable year.
  • Your donation will dramatically transform lives.
  • It’s a revolutionary new take on a traditional barre workout.

Why the hype?

I’m referring to genuinely, dramatically, and—depending on how... (Read More)

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