Writing Tips

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The writing tips

  1. Acronyms and initialisms
  2. All about ampersands
  3. All about dashes
  4. All about ellipsis (...)
  5. "An historic" or "a historic"?
  6. Are we losing the desire to write well?
  7. Avoid excessive punctuation!!!
  8. Character spacing for fun and profit
  9. Copyright questions answered
  10. Does appearance really matter?
  11. Does "Fathers Day" need an apostrophe?
  12. Double negatives needn't be no sin!
  13. Formatting printed tables neatly
  14. How wide should my margins be?
  15. Line spacing and you
  16. Semicolons and commas
  17. Serif and sans-serif fonts
  18. Successful proposal writing
  19. Two great fonts: Georgia and Verdana
  20. Underlining: why not to use it
  21. Using "i.e." and "e.g." correctly
  22. Which or that?
  23. Who or whom?
  24. Who's versus whose
  25. Why is empty space important?
  26. "You and I" or "You and me"?