When writing your resume, avoid overly used cliche words.
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From the category archives:
Write Right
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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Don’t bury the lead. To construct a proper post, open with a sentence explaining the point lickity-split, then follow it with three supporting ideas, and close by re-stating the lead. When you are done, write a headline that boils it down to a short phrase. Do not stray from this formula, and your blog will be a success.
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I do a Google search and find Twitter users exceed 200,000 per day, firing out 3 million Tweets – a mind-blowing average of 15 Tweets per Twit. It’s like the invention of the machine gun. No one is safe any more.
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Epic novelist James A. Michener, (books by this author) once said, “I’m not a very good writer, but I’m an excellent rewriter.”
That is the key to the art of writing: EDIT, EDIT, EDIT.
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For anyone out there who ever dreamed of writing a book, Miss Applesassy suggests, there is no better place to learn than in the shark tank. Query Shark is a simple little blogspot blog run by New York literary agent Janet Reid.
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I just wrote a little post on my personal blog about history and blogging, and what we are leaving for the next generation when we publish on-line diaries. When I wrote it, I decided to put it there and not here, because I did not really think I was writing about blogging…but by the time [...]
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“One hasn’t become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession. Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic, physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating.” – Niyi Osundare In order to write a successful blog, and [...]
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If you long to write, Go Where the Writers Are.
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The first three necessities in any writers toolbox include a timeless little book called The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White. Right next to that little gem on your shelf should be the Grand Bible of the publishing industry The Chicago Manual of Style by the University of Chicago Press [...]
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