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The writing tips
- Acronyms and initialisms
- All about ampersands
- All about dashes
- All about ellipsis (...)
- "An historic" or "a historic"?
- Are we losing the desire to write well?
- Avoid excessive punctuation!!!
- Character spacing for fun and profit
- Copyright questions answered
- Does appearance really matter?
- Does "Fathers Day" need an apostrophe?
- Double negatives needn't be no sin!
- Formatting printed tables neatly
- How wide should my margins be?
- Line spacing and you
- Semicolons and commas
- Serif and sans-serif fonts
- Successful proposal writing
- Two great fonts: Georgia and Verdana
- Underlining: why not to use it
- Using "i.e." and "e.g." correctly
- Which or that?
- Who or whom?
- Who's versus whose
- Why is empty space important?
- "You and I" or "You and me"?





