Editing Secrets This Article is About: Writing Tips, A+ Tips, It SchoolOnce you've plotted out your book, developed the characters and written the last word of text, the real work begins. As busy editors are bombarded with hundreds or even thousands of submissions a yea......
Pairs/Groups Of Words Often Confused - Part 1 of 6 By Laraine Anne Barker ACCEPT, EXCEPT Not commonly seen even from unpublished writers, who are probably familiar with the difference because they're all waiting for an acceptance! "We accept your in......
Pairs/Groups Of Words Often Confused - Part 6 of 6 SALE, SAIL Sale is either offering something for purchase ("for sale") or offering it at a special price ("on sale"); sail is part of a ship or boat. SELL, CELL Sell is to exchange for money; cell i......
Pairs/Groups Of Words Often Confused - Part 5 of 6 This Article is About: Health Care Services, Health Care, Medical TreatmentsPASSED, PAST Passed is the past tense of pass. Past means a time that has gone. "Time passed and we all forgot the incident." "In times past it was the custom for women to wear hats in church." P......
Pairs/Groups Of Words Often Confused - Part 4 of 6 LATER, LATTER Later means afterwards; latter is the second of two things. "Later that day we went for a walk." "We have two choices. The latter is the more reliable, but the former would be cheaper."......
Pairs/Groups Of Words Often Confused - Part 3 of 6 This Article is About: Medical Exams, Legal Club, One LegalELICIT, ILLICIT Elicit means to extract or draw out; illicit means not legal. EVERYONE, EVERY ONE Everyone means every person in a group; every one means each person and is always followed by "of". "......
Pairs/Groups Of Words Often Confused - Part 2 of 6 This Article is About: French Help, French Cd, French CourseBAITED, BATED Baited usually refers to traps or snares. When the reference is to someone who is hardly daring to breathe, the correct word is always bated: "She watched with bated breath." I've yet t......
Be Concise This Article is About: It Class, Mba Management, Mba BusinessConcision. (Sounds like I made up another word.) It's the idea of being concise in our ongoing communication with others, both written and oral. Many take forever to say so little. These are the same......
Tips For Better Writing This Article is About: Marketing And Sales, Sales Letter, Sales LettersIt is certainly true that we don't get a second chance to make a first impression. As the impression we make on the Internet is almost always with the written word, is it unfortunate that there is so......
Good Proof Reading This Article is About: Health Care Services, Health Care, Health Care ServiceWeather posting a page to your Website, writing a letter to a customer, or submitting an article for publication, it is extremely important to demonstrate how professional you are. Not only does a se......
Writing For The Web: Where To Get Article Ideas This Article is About: Writing Tips, Reading Tips, A+ TipsA friend and I were talking the other day about writing. He liked to write, but even so his biggest problem was finding things to write about. My friend was astounded at the volume of writing that I ......
Tips On Writing A Killer Sales Letter This Article is About: Medical Service, Health Care Service, Sales LetterWriting a sales letter doesn’t have to be that difficult all you need is the right writing style and some tips to knock out a killer sales letter Benefits The first thing you need to do is focus on ......
Writing Press Releases That Get Noticed This Article is About: Small Business, Online Course, Online On LineAmong the various foolproof methods used to boost traffic to your site (ezine advertising, and search engine submitting, to name a couple) one method seems to be forgotten about by many new Internet ......
An Inside Look at Proofreading This Article is About: Medical Service, Health Care Service, Business CommunicationThis is the ideal topic for us all to think about. We do it everyday, especially those of us that use the Internet the majority of the time. Web pages, business letters, articles, news releases, docu......
Impulse Writing for Better Ad Headings This Article is About: Medi Cal Services, Phlebotomy Services, Health Care ServicesWriting headlines for your ads is the most important part of your online presence. When posting your ad to classified sites, directories, message boards, newsgroups or mailing lists, the only part......
Bush's Election Victory This Article is About: Medical Service, Health Care Service, A Man And A WomanPresident George W. Bush has unofficially won his re-election bid defeating Democratic challenger Senator John Kerry. The election was close, no doubt, but it was by no means a re-run of the 2000 ele......
PublishAmerica - Publishing Parasites This Article is About: Medi Cal Services, Phlebotomy Services, Health Care ServicesI have to admit to being readily impressed by company names. Maybe it's an age thing. You see, I was around when we had nationalised industries here in Britain, you know, British Railways, British ......
Will This Be Your First 'How-To' Report? This Article is About: Writing Tips, A+ Tips, Computer ScienceYou've got to start somewhere, but once you've created your very first How-To report and learnt to develop your own research tactics - life will never be the same again. You can write a report on alm......
Catholics Need To Take a Second Look at Morality This Article is About: Health Care Services, Health Care, Medical TreatmentsAccording to CNN, Catholics voted for President Bush over Senator John Kerry by a 51 to 48 percent margin. Hence, Catholics voted for a Born Again Methodist over a Catholic candidate. Many Catholic......
Publish Anything: The Saga of a PublishAmerica Author This Article is About: Business Model, E Business, Business CardMy story is that an author who’d done online writing for such dot gones as Themestream, Written By Me, and The Vines, someone trying hard to have fiction, poetry and nonfiction in print for real, rec......
Learning from Your English Teacher This Article is About: E Business, Business Writing, Internet MarketingBy now you probably understand how important writing for trade publications is to establishing credibility in the home business world. On to the first hurdle: how do you get past that HUGE writers' ......
A Few Brief Tips for Dealing with Rejection This Article is About: 5 Star Rating, Writing Tips, A+ TipsWhat to do when you get rejected. You've just finished your book, sent out query letters and was rejected. What's left to do? You could give up, but I wouldn't suggest this. Here's some brief tips on......
The Lecture Experience: Part I This Article is About: Health Care Services, Health Care, Senior CareDuring the past year or so, I have done nearly a hundred talks about my book, “LADIES: A Conjecture of Personalities.” It’s about the First Ladies – the OLD First Ladies, Martha through Mamie. Since ......
Write Right for the Right Reasons This Article is About: Internet Marketing Group, Business Idea, Business IdeasIt seems that I must get dozens of newsletters and ezines in my email box every day. That does not include, of course, all the Internet Marketing groups that I belong to that send me a listing of ......
Tips for First Time Authors This Article is About: Health Care Services, Health Care, Health Care ServiceCongratulations on writing your first book. That is quite an accomplishment. Many people dream of writing a book, but you actually did it. Way to go. At this point you are probably wondering where to......
