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Monthly Archives: July 2009

Ever wonder exactly what editors do?

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Vanity Fair has taken a jab at Sarah Palin by setting its editorial staff to work on her resignation speech. The point of the excercise from VF’s perspective, of course, was to further hammer home a point that has been made many times already — the speech had some issues. I’m posting their work here [...]

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Are you looking for a writer or a receptionist?

Monday, July 20, 2009

Note to Businesspeople: Hiring an in-house “writer/editor” who will also make bank deposits, do data entry, answer the phone, “design” your web site, make the coffee, clean the floors, book your travel, and pick up your dry cleaning will *not* result in very professional written materials or a very happy/long-term employee. Instead of hiring someone [...]

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Signing Off on Married Me: Article for the Globe and Mail

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Here’s another article I wrote that was recently published in the Globe and Mail.

Signing Off on Married Me

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Even the New York Times can be too Abstruse

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Here’s a great article about the language used in the New York Times. The Times has to strike a tricky balance between satisfying its readers urge for high-brow language and using words that means no one understands what the writers are trying to say. Sometimes, they go a bit too far.

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