An editor is your parachute, the person who catches you to prevent you from falling disastrously. All of us make mistakes when writing. There are techniques you can use to identify your mistakes, but most of these require a bit of time (e.g. re-reading your work the next day) and you could possibly be working […]
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Fast news reporting, slow editing FOMO (fear of missing out) in our modern world drives news journalists to churn out news reports at lightning speed. The world wants to know as fast as possible about events: publishers want to beat the speed at which their competitors do the same. The public want to see the
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How do you write a newsletter?There is no one-size-fits-all guide for writing a newsletter. As with all documents written, one needs to adapt a newsletter to make it appealing to the reader: and there are so many different readers… This is a brief description of the most important things to bear in mind.Firstly: content. You
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Keeping the client happy is important to a consultant. The person newly starting out as a consultant in any field needs to know that there are multiple possible pitfalls in the relationship with clients. The consultant-client relationship is arguably the most prone of all work relationships to a breakdown, simply because it is so fluid
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The world is shrinking: goods and services are no longer used on a single country only. Online shopping is increasing rapidly. How do you write advertisements that will appeal to several markets across the globe? And what is more, several markets within a particular country? Firstly you need to recognise that there are traits in
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How do we learn? Wow, what a lot has been written about this! Psychologists have spent many hours researching how learning takes place and how to optimise the learning process. I would like to add my take on an aspect of the learning process which comes purely from my experience as a student and as
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In 1998 Dr Spencer Johnson, who had headed up research and development institutions, published Who Moved My Cheese? This joined The One Minute Manager, which he co-authored, as a best-seller. It is a short book, a parable about managing change in one’s relationships, work life, health, or any other field that is important to one. Wow, that book’s truths
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A friend of mine works as mediator in disputes. He was recently asked to assist in a dispute between a student and an institution of higher learning. The student had not passed a first-year course, and informed the university that he would sue them for damages, as they were obliged to ensure that he obtained
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As a teenager, I read newspaper articles about the extent to which the world had changed in somebody’s lifetime. I used to wonder at the adaptability of mankind: that one could become accustomed to different ways of doing things. Well, as the advertisers say, “you ain’t seen nothing yet”. I never dreamed that I would
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Where were the days when businesses and organisations wrote their communications to the public only in formal, stiff styles, using grammar that was exactly correct. The world of written communication is becoming more relaxed, for more that one reason. Firstly, writers recognise that they need to appeal to their audiences. When writing for the youth
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