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Exceptional writers not only avail professional editing services but also revise their work – constantly. Nowadays, employers seek more than core job skills. They want superlative writers.
Professional Editing and Proofreading
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Posted: Sep. 6th 2014
When editing and proofreading your writing, you should check for the following easy-to-fix errors.
1) Between or Among?
When describing groups or connections, use “between” for two parties and “among” for three or more.
Between cats and dogs, I prefer cats.
When someone started throwing rocks, the fragile détente between the police and the protesters fell apart.
Posted: Aug. 29th 2014
Gone are the days when a person could or would spend 30 years building a career at one company. Now, workers change jobs every two to four years. Unfortunately, for those who struggle to represent their core self in a single page, this relatively new phenomenon means resume editing and lots of it!
Posted: Aug. 21st 2014
Business, banking, science, art, and a myriad of other sectors prefer, no, demand that you be active rather than passive. The active seize what they want, explore the world around them, and experiment with new approaches and ideas. They are confident, exciting, and innovative. They lead. They take the initiative. They live rich, full lives. By contrast, the passive let life pass them by. They simply accept what others give them and seem to have no will of their own. Which are you?
Posted: Aug. 14th 2014
The blank page is terrifying. However, even more terrifying are the consequences of plagiarism and cheating. Here’s a brief non-comprehensive history of plagiarism and cheating and their consequences.
1938 - Henry Ford’s grandson paid a fellow student to write a paper for him. Yale expelled him. He never earned a degree.
Posted: Aug. 7th 2014
Business Editing
Business writers take as their audience non-academics and often non-practitioners. Therefore, those who offer business editing must attend to four principles: simplicity, informality, convenience, and action.
Simplicity
Those who offer business editing must ensure that writers use short sentences that express their ideas clearly and with simple vocabulary.
Short sentences
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