A resume should help sell your unique skills, not just list what you did at your job. The vast majority of job seekers list their job duties, but this tutorial gives you five strategies to liven up your job bullets by highlighting your unique skills. So read this blog and start highligting your unique skills.
Knowing and using correct punctuation is useful. This blog posts teaches a basic grammar principle: using commas with coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS). Learn when to put a comma before "and," "for," "nor," "but," "or," "yet," and "so" and when you don't need the comma.
Word's Track Changes is the industry standard for editing your manuscript, so it's important you know how to use this tool well.
Dialogue reveals character and moves the action along, but poorly written dialogue can have the opposite effect. This article explains how to avoid common dialogue mistakes, when to use internal dialogue, and gives examples of good and bad dialogue.
Many writers tend to overuse "be" verbs. While we need these words, strong writers often reword sentences to eliminate them, choosing powerful verbs instead. This article provides specific methods to eliminate them. Read and apply these strategies to strengthen your writing.
When writing dialogue tags, authors often fall into these common pitfalls. Avoiding these pitfalls will strengthen your dialogue tags, improving the pacing and characterization. So read this blog to discover how you can avoid these pitfalls and write better dialogue tags today.
Editing is essentially broken into four levels. This article will help you make an informed decision on the levels of editing you need, regardless of the term being used, and what to budget for your project. Click here to learn what type of editing you may need and what to expect to pay for it.
Claims are thesis statements for argumentative essays. They should be debatable, but stated like a fact. This article gives examples of good claims, how to write a claim, and discusses types of claims. Read on and start writing powerful claim statements today.
This article will help you see how an editor works with you to make your material the best it can be in the time available. Understanding this will help you have realistic expectations and a better collaborative experience.
When writing an essay or a nonfiction book, it is important to have transitions connecting your topics together. This blog post describes how to do that in easy to follow steps, and then provides examples from essays and nonfiction books.
