by Maddie | Jun 13, 2022 | Blog
If you read our blog post about why typos happen, you’ll know that typos occur easily and they can be hard to find and fix. In that post we talked about distraction being one of the causes of typos and errors, but another cause for mistakes in copy is a lack of...
by Maddie | May 29, 2022 | Blog
The English language can be a bit tricksy. Words can look or sound the same, but have completely different meanings. There are different variations of this, but as a general rule they can be categorised as follows: Homonyms – words that spell and sound the same, but...
by Maddie | May 5, 2022 | Blog
Have you ever made an embarrassing typo? Perhaps you’ve never made one that attracted quite so much ridicule as the infamous ‘covfefe’ gaff by Donald Trump but, still, typos are undoubtedly something you’d rather avoid at all costs. In this post, we take an in-depth...
by Maddie | Apr 17, 2022 | Blog
When we write we tend to add filler words. Adjectives and adverbs that pad out the word count and give a sense of gravitas to what we’re writing. I personally have a penchant for the word ‘therefore’. There’s just something about it that makes me want to jam it into...
by Maddie | Apr 2, 2022 | Blog
With punctuation, it’s not so much something that you notice if it’s been done right. But boy howdy, if it’s wrong, you definitely will. To quote a certain cartoon tv show, “When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.” – God, Futurama....
by Maddie | Mar 26, 2022 | Blog
Writing in an active voice As you write, you will develop habits. It’s a fact of life that the more you do something, the more it will become habitual. University, for example, ingrained in me the habit of writing in a passive voice. A passive voice is important in...
