Posted on July 2nd, 2009 by admin
There are a number of outlets and online stores that sell ink jet and printer inks for all your printer types. But you should be in a position to choose a good shop that sells quality ink so that you get the best of out it. One such website that I recently came across in [...]
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Posted on March 17th, 2009 by admin
There are a number of IT professionals today and each one is highly competent with another. Promotions, salary hike are purely based on how best you showcase yourself before others. One best option is to get yourself trained and certified with various products, tools with industry’s leading service/product provider like Microsoft. If you are looking [...]
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Posted on February 15th, 2009 by Sl grey
Like the bad plague, try to do your very best to avoid sentences that are or seem dead before they even begin. Here is a very fine example:
It is often said (still goes on) that……., and how (still goes on) about:
It can be…, and (still goes on)
We can surmise (still goes on) …
Sentences like this [...]
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Posted on February 12th, 2009 by admin
If you can avoid the use of passive phrases in your sentences, you can really give make your words much stronger really!!! Passive words like “were”, “is”, “was”, “would have” “could have”, , and so on.
Take these two sentences for example:
The mouse was eaten by the cat (passive voice-”was eaten” ). A much better version [...]
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Posted on December 24th, 2008 by admin
You should really avoid index works as much as and whenever possible. A few index words are “this”, “that”, “these”, etc. Here is a cool example that would better illustrates the point I’m trying so hard to make:
The American colonials went (still goes on) to war with England-part1. They hoped to achieve independence (still [...]
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Posted on December 20th, 2008 by admin
Keep your sentences as short as possible. Long sentences are really boring. Short sentences will keep your readers interested. Short sentences really do promote clarity. Clarity is very vital in a really good sentence. Okay, that was a ride to the extreme, but the facts remain intact, short sentences do tend to promote much cleaner [...]
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Posted on December 11th, 2008 by Sl grey
This is similar to point (Rephrasing the sentence for Clarity), but rather than just re-arranging the sentence, we are going to be removing all the unnecessary (totally) weeds. It is very important to practice this skill cuz it will come in handy soon. Here is a bad sentence by a noob.
The [...]
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Posted on December 6th, 2008 by admin
Have you ever noticed that loads of these examples have been around reducing the amount of text that you have written? They are all and always (lead) leading to this final point: revision. In fact, it really should be “revise, then revise, then revise again and once more if you’re up for it and the [...]
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Posted on November 28th, 2008 by admin
please” Use: correct’ . yeah. Correct punctuation.s in,s in. you’re Sentences!”
Check Your Spelling Too! Bad punctuation can really ruin brilliant a writing. Always capitalize your sentences correctly (and don’t you bother mentioning Cummings – he already knew the rules “rules are meant to be broken” before he broke them). The internet is the worst(and the [...]
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Posted on November 19th, 2008 by admin
This may be a really controversial point, but I very strongly believe (so do many people) that, as much as and whenever possible, you really should try to avoid the use of words that have origins from the Romance languages (langs that have their roots in French, Romanian, Latin – Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese). This [...]
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