4 Dastardly Reasons People Make Typos On Purpose
Intentional typos help conniving people manipulate their readers. Here’s a countdown of the four most insidious reasons writers make typos on purpose.
Content Development
Content Development SEO Case Study: A Shoe Mystery
Content development SEO turns a web writer into a modern Sherlock Holmes. Our case study in web content development SEO explains how to improve engagement.
Productivity-Boosting Keyboard Shortcuts for Writers
Speed up your everyday writing workflow with these basic keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Word. Sometimes mouse-work can be slow and tedious. Here are a few essential PC keyboard shortcuts you can use to get more done in less time! Ctrl + A Select all Ctrl + C Copy Ctrl + V Paste Ctrl + F …
3 Mistakes You Learned in English Class
Language is alive. It’s changed a lot since Mr. Keating’s English class. To keep your writing current, here are three outdated rules that you can finally break: 1. Use two spaces after a period. Back in typewriter days, teachers taught students to type two spaces after periods. Computers have changed everything. Programs are now designed …
[ENTERTAINMENT] 13 Ridiculous Southern Expressions
Have you have ever spoken with anyone from ProEdit? If so, you quickly realized that most of us are from the South (Cumming, GA, specifically). Folks say we talk kinda funny. We think we sound quite normal. Here are 13 Southern expressions. Are they weird? You be the judge: “Like a cat on a hot tin roof.”Cats …
[CONTENT DEVELOPMENT] Don’t Read Today’s Blog Post!
Maybe telling people that they shouldn’t read your blog post is a lousy idea for actually getting people to read your blog post. But the point is made, nonetheless. You’re here. This week’s post is about how to write attention-getting titles for your blog posts. Here are some templates that you can put to immediate …
What Is a Morpheme?
Most Word People love morphemes, but they may not even know it. A “morpheme” is a word or a part of a word that has a meaning and that contains no smaller part that has a meaning. An example is probably the best way to explain this concept. Let’s begin with the lexical item nation …
Are These the First Emoticons? History Suggests They Might Be.
Way back on March 30, 1881, four emoticons, described as typographical art, were published in the satirical magazine titled “Puck.” Here’s how they looked.
[WORD PEOPLE] Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lorem Ipsum…
This week’s blog posting will explore a topic that has bugged Word People for hundreds of years. What is “Lorem Ipsum” anyway, and why do we use it in page layout? According to lipsum.com (and yes, there is a website devoted to this topic…who knew?): “Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and …
Understanding Bloom’s (and Anderson and Krathwohl’s) Taxonomy
Bloom’s Taxonomy, and Anderson and Krathwohl’s Taxonomy, are a classification system for learning objectives. Using them helps create effective training.